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…
Asteroid Bennu – mapping
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of…
The Expanse – Season 4
Season 4 of The Expanse, a television series based on the works of James S. A. Corey (the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) released all…
acurite weather station
It’s been over a week now since the new weather station (Acurite Pro model 06004) went operational in the back gardens. There have been signal dropouts and there has been…
Pi Projects update
The weatherpi (3B model) data logger for the Acurite Pro Weather Station has been operational now for over 5 days straight, with the weather sensor out in the back vegetable…
pi pi everywhere a pi
We recently did an inventory of all of the Raspberry Pi computers we had kicking about: 1x pi1b 2014ish 1 core 700 MHz, 512MB, 2xUSB2, ethernet, hdmi 1x pi2b 2016ish…
Early Christmas
After many months of being without a weather station, we finally found one that should work for us. This is an Acurite Pro (model number yet to be determined). It…
Garlic to bed
The 847 garlic cloves of 99 varieties in 142 rows are nicely to bed and sleeping under a coat of straw and snow. Hopefully all will survive and grow to…
Transit of Mercury
You may have heard of the Big astronomy event… the Transit of Mercury across the Sun. Well… this is the view we had from our location…. No Sun. No Mercury.…
Linux Fedora 30 to 31 upgrades
The latest linux fedora distribution came out a few days ago.. and for once I actually missed the event. So starting yesterday, I started the twice a year process of…
Garlic Prep
Two days after work or prepping for garlic planting. about 3 1/2 hours in total to crack open about 150 bulbs to get 847 cloves for planting in 142 rows…
True Field of View
True Field of View In the past, when imaging Jupiter. I did a full field image run, put the image up on the screen, found out the apparent diameter of…