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…
seti@home update
It’s been over twenty years now of processing data from radio telescopes looking for signals of intelligence. There has been an ebb and flow of the data collected vs the…
Fireball! 20190724 02:44 EDT (06:44 UTC)
Zowee! A Big One! Meteorite that is. This is a combined image of 8 all sky cameras capturing the event on Wednesday morning, 2019 July 24th at 02:44 EDT (06:44…
Garlic Harvest 2019 – Day Two
Monday 2019 July 22 was the great garlic harvest of 2019 Day Two. We put in two hours of pulling the garlic out of the ground after loosening with a…
Summer cats
There are never enough soft cushions to lay on. And there is never enough food for Dora, here asking “you gots foods for me?”