Solar Eclipse Image Processing
For the 2017 August 21st Total Solar Eclipse, we were onsite in Wyoming taking images with a 13 year old Canon DSLR with a 75-300mm lens, on a manual non-tracking…
Garlic seed available soon
For those looking for garlic seed to plant this fall, rest assured we will have some in the near future. Last week the cleaning and storing of the 500 bulbs…
Garden Prep
The first step in Garden Prep is to get your (*&#^$@#% machinery working again! Our tiller has worked great for 2 or 3 years now… will tear through all kinds…
Solar Totality 20170821
This is it. Totality. The complete eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. It was a long trip from the Kingston Ontario area to Wyoming and a longer trip back.…
Garlic Planting history
The 2016/2017 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room. Time to start thinking about the 2017/2018 crop. A summary of when we…
Total Solar Eclipse raw video
This is the complete video that we have from the Total Solar Eclipse from south of Jay Em Wyoming on Monday 2017 August 21st. The camcorder does record a timestamp…
20170821 Solar Eclipse
This is the first processing run of the total solar eclipse video shot on Monday 2017 August 21 south of Jay Em Wyoming. We used Movie Maker that comes with…
The Great 2017 Solar Eclipse Road Trip
At mostly the last minute, we decided to drive to Wyoming to witness the 2017 August 21 Total Solar Eclipse. Why Wyoming? Mainly because the historical weather records showed us…
Tardis Observatory goings on
This has been our constant companion for a month now… a snake in the observatory. Ewwwww. At least he still leaves fairly easily when pushed out the door. The Torus…
Garlic harvest begins
The SCGO Great Garlic Harvest of 2017 has begun. We pull up only the garlic that is ready, with 2-3 leaves dried out. Since there are over 75 types, we…
Replacing the focus mount adapter
This is the “before” image of the 2″ wooden adapter between the telescope primary cell and the 2″ focuser. It is needed as the original setup included the filter wheel,…
dangers of working in observatories
We spent some time working on the Torus telescope and Tardis observatory yesterday.. maybe an hour working on the wheels and rail transport and then moved inside to work on…
Tardis wheels
A few weeks back we changed out the six regular wheels that moved the Tardis Observatory off from the telescope, to four inverted V wheels on an angle iron rail.…
testing the lens
We purchased a canon 75-300mm zoom lens for astronomy purposed, but have not yet had a lot of chance to try it out. So in the daylight of the backyard…