two nice meteors
Two nice meteors in the last two days: North up, south down, west right, east left. Saturday 2020 April 11, 04:13:07 UT = Saturday 2020 April 11, 00:13:07 EDT This…
Allsky1pi update
We are superduper happy with the allsky1pi camera project. It has better resolution and colour images over the older allsky1 system (2006-2018) running a very old SBIG ST237A camera system.…
Allskypi Camera System Project
The allskypi camera system is pretty much operational, subject to a few additional tweaks in the upcoming days. This is the first report giving background details: allskypiCameraproject20200308v2 Many thanks to…
Allskypi camera sensor temp review
Allskypi is an allsky camera system with a ZWO ASI 120MC camera and wide angle lens protruding out into a 4″ transparent dome, with the remainder of the camera and…
Seedy Saturday 2020
**CANCELLED due to COVID9*** From https://www.kingstonist.com/news/seedy-saturday-offers-local-green-thumbs-an-early-start-to-their-gardening/ Gardeners, from novice to expert, take note: The Kingston Area Seed System Initiative (KASSI) will be holding their annual Seedy Saturday on Saturday, Mar.…
L&A Hort met this week
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 February 19th at our new location of St. Patricks Church, 179 West St, Napanee. Ample free parking across…
Allsky1pi operational
The new allsky1 version3 camera system. The camera is a ZWO ASI 120MC (not cooled) with a 2.1mm lens giving approx a 150 degree field of view. The housing was…
Allsky1pi aka allskypi
This is part of the new allsky1pi camera system, specifically the ZWO ASI 120mc camera with its included wideangle lens, and a reaspberry pi model 3b. The camera is mounted…
weather underground? – dont count on it
The last couple of years, on what used to be the premier free weather data aggregating server, has gone to hell. Lost accounts, lost configurations, deleting features then adding them…
opposition 2020
This image shows Mars at 7.2 arcseconds in diameter and a declination of +0deg 52 min and an altitude of 22 deg, and using 3ms exposures. Following up on the…
advice from down under
We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O’Donnell. This one was particularly nice: We use some of the software…
L&A Hort Met This Week
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met this week, on Wednesday, 2020 January 15th 7pm at the Morning Star Mission, 59 Water St., Napanee. 15 members and guests were in…
Betelgeuse
This is the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. The image on the left is from 2019 October 23 and the image on the right from 2019…
Allskypi pathfinder project
Our v2 allsky camera was an SBIG ST237A camera and was operational from 2006Dec-2018July. Ever since then we have been toying around with building another system out of existing spare…