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…
Garlic planting prep 2019
Its that time of year… time to plant the garlic cloves before the ground freezes. So this past weekend, we cleared out the VegBed4 of tomatos plants, stakes, basil, flowers…
Transit of Mercury 2019 Nov 11
The transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun is fast approaching! Time to start thinking and preparing for the event. This graphics shows that the entire transit will…
library indexing
We started work on indexing the library. We are trying out various processes on other collections to find the best method before we look to the science library (the largest).…
Sunrise over SuperSID
Sunrise one recent morning looking over the TARDIS observatory, the Serenity Observatory and the SuperSID antenna. Great way to start the day.. especially with hot-water-passed-through-ground-up-coffee-beans!
David Levy Speaking to RASC Belleville and Kingston Centres
Renowned Comet Hunter David H. Levy will be at Stirling Hall Theatre A on Queen’s University campus at 3:00pm on Sunday 2019 September 08, to speak to members of the…