cloud=no astro=disassemble!
What does an astronomer do when it is cloudy and very cold? Not much astronomy to be sure. So instead of observing the stars with telescopes, lets do some disassembly!…
2018
Welcome to 2018. Welcome to Mars. How do these two statements connect? With this image of the Dora cat with green laser eyes and a very nifty mat. We came…
Meade LXD55 mount
This is my new (used) mount, a Meade LXD55. It comes with a battery holder for x8 D size batteries, but I suspect it would go through that pretty quick.…
linux fedora 26 server upgrades to v27
From: http://news.softpedia.com/news/server-edition-of-fedora-27-linux-is-finally-here-but-it-lacks-modularity-518967.shtml Three weeks after the launch of the Fedora 27 Linux operating system, the Fedora Project announced the release of Fedora 27 Server edition, but it’s not what you…
Memory woes
There have been server issues for the last few days… hard to troubleshoot and diagnose to be sure. Thought it was a bad mariadb database, maybe bad guys getting into…
Pier adieu
You know its going to be a bad day when you see a reciprocating saw in the observatory This is the 2nd of 2 piers that have had to be…
December?
Wow.. another December already? Already three months plus past our first total solar eclipse, out in Southeastern Wyoming. We continue on experimenting with Raspberry Pi model 2B microcomputers and have…
Fireball sat 2017nov11 00:10:15 EST
Reviewing allsky camera events overnight with coffee this morning and found this great big fireball in the north, heading north at 05:10:15 UT 2017nov11 -5 hours puts it at Saturday…
RadioJove system repairs and mods
Last week we noticed that the cable connected to the southern dipole antenna of the RadioJove system was broken/disconnected. Not a surprise as it has been up for over six…
Garlic Bulbils planted
Another garlic related project… bulbils. They were planted last night, Monday 2017 Nov 06, in vegbed#7 and covered in straw. The plantings are complete! For more information about garlic please…
Garlic planting Sat 2017 Nov 04
This is the dibbler. It has 6 dowels on the bottom spaced at 6″ apart. Spacing between types of garlic is 8″, with spacing between rows of the same type…
Garden signage for garlic
Three years ago, we printed off the names of the types of Garlic we had and had them laminated at Staples. They were cut apart and stapled onto 1×2 stakes.…
Allsky2 Updates
The Allsky2 computer system suffered a drive failure a month or so ago. Luckily it was part of a software RAID setup, so there was not a lot of lost…