supersid operational
Our supersid system has been operating at the edge of the property for 3 years now, mainly to get as faraway from any house generated RFI as we can. Too…
Gardening in April
It is only April the 5th, but yesterday we were out surveying the gardens and trying to ignore the piles of snow still here and there. Great plans are being…
Davis Vantage Vue Weather Station repair
Update: 12 days later the new CR123 lithium battery died as well. No data is logged during the night period, and even if it is really cloudy in the day…
365 days of astronomy – april update
In the theme of 365 Days of Astronomy, we made a New Year Resolution to attempt to observe or image every day possible in 2019. These are the results: The…
linux kernel v5
The linux kernel v5 has arrived. This morning during a routine update check, there it was: Linux version 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 According the Linus, there is nothing particular special about moving major…
Apollo 11 – two rockets up
Apollo 11- a documentary with a lot of new archived 70mm footage and what I think were some large format film images that were processed into higher resolution gorgeous final…
Upgrading an Imac
This is a tale of upgrading an imac… a 21.5″ late 2015 imac to be precise. We bought it, we used it, it started slowing down.. a lot. various upgrades…
Another meteor event 20190309 02:22:23 UTC
Another fireball captured on the Allsky2 camera system, first reported by a local astronomer in a hot tub 🙂 The 4MB video can be seen here. We captured only the…
Sky Anomaly
Greetings… this is an interesting one. A sky anomaly went overhead last night (Thursday 2019 March 7th) at 23:38:30 UTC, 18:38:30 EST overhead towards the north. A link to the13…
8 second meteor 2019 March 01
Upon reviewing and discovering bugs in the last weeks worth of Allsky2 camera code, I processed it manually and came across this nice 8 second meteor on the morning of…
SSD upgrade
Wow. This is for any imagers in particular out there, with a desktop of laptop computer with a spinning hard drive. Replace it with a Solid State Drive (SSD). Now!…
Snowbound
What do we do when stuck inside for the winter? Revisit some classic video. We started with the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy, which took a little over…
Linux Fedora 29
This website has been running on linux fedora forever… at least 15 years if not more. Back in the day we started with 32 bit linux, as that is all…
video finder
We’ve recently taken these two items and put them together to create a usb digital webcam finder, as opposed to the traditional video camera with an Analog to Digital converter…