Imaging Again!
The last many months have seen a decided lack of imaging and astronomical observing. It probably all started when the 16 year old wooden pier was removed as it was…
midsummer pause
It’s the middle of the summer. The garlic harvest is complete and is hanging to dry. That lets us turn our attention to other projects. We have started building a…
Garlic Harvest complete – 5 days
The Great SCGO Garlic Harvest of 2018 has completed. Five days/sessions of harvest over a week: Sun 2018 July 22 – 3 hours Mon 2018 July 23 – 1.5 hours…
It’s a Beautiful Day!
A month of drought, heat waves, cracked soil, dead grass, dead plants and finally we have 4 days of slow rain. 69mm to be exact. And it is awesome! Plants…
Garlic Harvest Day 3
Day three of the SCGO 2018 Garlic Harvest. Another 90 minutes in the gardens, another 136 plants harvested. For the first time, the new washing table was put to use.…
Tomato progress
This is part of our heirloom tomato patch. Each plant is staked, velcroed for support and labelled with a laminated nametag. We top up our soil each year and this…
garlic harvest 2018
Sunday 2018 July 22nd, the 2nd day of garlic harvest. Saturday was about 3 hours of harvesting just under 200 plants. Sunday was only about 1 hour for just under…
Bright meteor 20180629 01:24:58 EDT
Reviewing the nightly allsky2 images of bright meteors, we came across this *nice* meteor at 05:24 UTC or 01:24 EDT. Needless to say, we were not awake to see this…
power rankings
Interesting analysis summary. Unsure of the detailed parameters but it looks pretty in the end. The only good news is: being at the bottom means you can only go up…
seti@home
I first joined the distributed computer project SETI@Home back on 1999 April 12th. That means early next year will be 20 years. Wow. Very few things survey for 20 years…
Radiojove vs lightning
This is the affect of the thunderstorm/lightning storm that rolled through our area last night… less than an hour overhead directly, but the Radiojove radio telescope system was picking up…
Supersid anomaly
This is a screen capture of the Supersid v1.2.2 software capturing the Supersid receiver data. We’ve started to notice that overtime the plotted graph shrinks down to almost no signal.…
ISS transit of the Sun 2018June02
On Saturday 2018 June 2nd, we drove over to the Venus transit site south of Newburgh (staying on the public road part and not trespassing) to observe and image the…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden over the years
Google Earth has a nice feature of making accessible historical satellite imagery. Below are the various images from the last few years of the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. 2011…
Tomatos 2018 May
The tomatos have come out of the greenhouse and have been hardening off outside for the last three days. So far so good, no losses. This is the approximate list,…