ISS transit of the Moon 2021May20
This is my *single* frame capture of the ISS transit of the moon on Thursday 2021 May 20th at 23:58:08 UTC. The ISS is the little lighter blotch in the…
drip irrigation is pretty awesome
This is our drip irrigation system that we bought last year (kit form), just laid out a week ago when we transplanted the heirloom tomatos. This year the plants are…
spring gardens
A quick snap of Vegbed5 for historical records… Approx 960 garlic cloves were planted on 2020 October 25 & 28 in the eastern section (left side of image). Potatos went…
Lunar Werner X 2021may18
We went out last evening around 21:00 edt and attempted to get some images of the Werner lunar X. This is from a Canon T7i on a tripod with a…
Darkside of the Moon
One of the better dark side of the moon images taken 3days old, positioned low to our horizon between some power lines. This was a 2 second exposure on a…
Nova Cas 2021 (V1405Cas)
Our first confirmed image of Nova Cass 2021 (V1405Cas) taken with a DSLR on a tripod for 30 seconds of unguided exposure at ISO3200 and a 75-300mm zoom lens at…
First Light – allsky1pi new lens
This is the First Light image from the new wider angle lens for the allsky1pi camera system. The old lens came along with the ASI ZWO120MC camera and was a…
Solar M3.9 Flare 2021May07 19:10 UTC
The data closeup from the SCGO Radiojove radio telescope system for the M3.9 class flare from active region 2822 just coming onto the sun on 2021 May 07. The spaceweatherlive…
Solar Flare C8.6 20210422-2006UTC
Its Solar Flare Season again! This note came from the Radiojove email list from John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia/West Virginia): “More solar activity @ 20MHz. Attached chart for 200330 –…
SCGO renos and repairs part 2
Most rolloff roof observatory designs have a “flippy board” feature that flips up before rolling the roof off. This allows for clearance of any instruments you may have inside, and…
Double the compost, double the fun!
Compost. What fun. We’ve had and used a compost pile for kitchen scraps, yard waste, etc for years. But as always with compost piles, they never get treated correctly, oft…
SCGO renos and repairs
The Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories 1st rolloff roof observatory was built in 2003. It is an 8×10 metal shed from Canadian Tire that was repurposed. The external rails/outriggers are…
Supersid update
The SuperSID radio telescope system has had some coding updates. As of yesterday: The supersidpi data logger copies its data every hour to the file server every hour the file…
Mid April 2021
An interim post… weather has been nicer and warmer than average over the last two weeks, but now that has passed and we are back to below average temperatures and…