Mars 2020Nov01
After the last session on Oct30, I thought there were dust spots on the camera sensor window glass, so this was cleaned. I wanted to test it but there were…
Mars 2020Oct30
A good clear night, the first in a long time, albeit a little cold. Mars is now up high fairly early on in the evening, so we went out and…
Linux Fedora 33 released
Today was a good day. Linux Fedora 33 came out today. And is the upgrade process ever fast! and stable! in less than 1 hour we have upgraded 4 server…
Mars 2020Oct21
Mars Wednesday evening. It was unexpectedly somewhat clear, at least in the direction of Mars, last night. A lot of cloud all around, affecting other imagers to some degree. This…
Mars 2020 Oct 17
This is one of only two imaging runs of Mars on Friday evening. Another long day and a short night… not enough sleep hours in a day After completing the…
Jupiter double shadow transit 2020oct17
Shadow transits of Moons of Jupiter on Jupiter are relatively common. Double shadow transits are somewhat less common. Seen here is the moon Io off to the right with two…
Astronomy image processing
The current desktop computer that processes all of our astronomy images is nine years old. It’s specs are: Intelcore 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz, 4GB DDR2, 120GB SSD, DVD, Win10Pro64bit,…
Mars 2020 Oct 10 and 11
There were great plans afoot to image the planets this long weekend: Friday Saturday and Sunday evenings. Friday evening, the observatory was opened, the scope cooled down, and were just…
How much does the roof weigh?
The original metal roof of the SCGO observatory has blown off twice in very high winds, once by the remnants of a hurricane and the other by a blizzard. It…
Signature Flower Bed project 2020
And every year we try to create or renovate a flower garden bed around the property. This year we decided to enhance the back yard with this 100′ long berm.…
Fall garden prep
Starting to think about prepping your gardens for a fall planting? Can’t find compost anywhere? When you need it the most it is hardest to find. The local Glenburnie store…
Mars 2020sept25
Finally! After two years since the last opposition of Mars, I had a great night of imaging it. I had previously done a few back in June but Mars was…
Jupiter 2020sept18
After building a new hartman mask, a new dew shield, a new tripod prop, I did a two star alignment on Arcturus and Altair then went to Jupiter as it…
Jupiter 2020 Sept 23
1st quarter moon was maybe 35 degrees away from Jupiter, the southern half of the sky was lit up by the moon with high haze. Pointing the mount, big failure…
Garlic prep
This years 2020 garlic harvest was better than average. We harvested across a few weeks, as it came ready, and finished in early August. After drying in the leanto for…