Peak flower
Peak flower in one of the backyard flower beds. This was about 3 weeks back now. There is a nearby bird feeder that the racoons like a lot.. and normally…
irrigation 2022
The raised beds tend to dry out a little faster than an inground garden bed. So this year we expanded our tape irrigation system into three of the four beds…
Jupiter 2022July04
Saturn was up nicely in the morning, as was Jupiter. So the same was done for Jupiter… the image above with just the regular minimal information annotation and the image…
Saturn 2022July04
This is Saturn from Monday morning.. early Monday morning. The point of this post was to show the results of some troubleshooting with file and image management. Over the last…
UAP 2022 June 19 06:13-06:26 UTC
**Updated 2022June20 – other astronomers at the Lennox Addington Dark Sky Site also saw this visually and captured a couple of images. Way to go! Well.. that was a really…
A new adventure every day!
And this is today… still in Spring, Summer Solstice still 5 days away… Severe Thunderstorms.. ok that’s one thing… Tornados? That is another! Batten down the hatches (we don’t actually…
X1. solarflare 2021 October 28
Region 2887 Start Time UT 15:17; Max 15:35; End 15:48 Offscale of the realtime display… will need to reprocess this to get the peak showing…
Time of use electricity in Ontario
The province of Ontario installed timeofuse power metering some years ago. The current government has given the option of consumers to go back to a flat rate system as well,…
Life in the country – supersidpiant
Just one little ant… just one little ant was seen on the supersidpi unit, out in the observatory. A closer look showed that he had friends.. lots of friends… We…
Total Lunar Eclipse 2022May15/16
There was a total lunar eclipse on the evening of Sunday 2022May15th and ran past midnight into May 16th. We had a lot of cloud here that was coming in…
Linux Fedora 35 to 36 upgrades in place
Linux Fedora 36 was released yesterday and already we have upgraded one data backup server, one file server, one dual boot laptop and are midway through another file server. So…
Solar Flare X1.13 2022May03-13:25UTC
This is the SuperSID data from the X1.13 class solar flare that occurred on Tuesday 2022 May 03, peaking at 13:25 UTC (-4=09:25 EDT). This is not too surprising as…
X-1.13 solar flare at 13:47 UTC 2022April30
X1.13 flare at 13:47 UTC You know its a good one when it goes offscale! 🙂 Sun azimuth 107, or 83 deg off due south /15= or about 5.5 hours…
Bright fireball event 2022 April 18 03:37UTC near Lake Simcoe expected to have dropped meteorites
This was captured on the allsky camera system that we host from the University of Western Ontario, SCGO Allsky2, Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) UWO#10. A bright fireball was observed…
Desktop Computer replacement
In the normal course of events, when replacing a dead computer, is to buy something a little higher end, and then perform a handmedown upgrade sequence so that instead of…