Telescope Mirror Cleaning time
This is the 20cm telescope mirror from “Starbuck”, Kim’s newtonian on a Dobsonian mount. Having just come back from the RASC General Assembly, she has refilled the motivation reservoir and…
Allsky2 camera operational
The allsky2 camera system has been down since mid April 2017. We thought it was the camera. After receiving a replacement and having it fail as well, attention turned to…
Roll Off Building Observatory reno
The Tardis Observatory was reno’d last weekend in the form of removing x6 4″ rubber/poly wheels, flipping the L angle iron to an inverted V, and adding in x4 inverted…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 20170618
We stopped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden last Sunday, to see how they were doing. From these image, things are great! Nice and tidy, neat, well weeded and…
Tomatos
This is one of three veg beds that we have tomatos planted in this year. So far, in the last three days alone, we have lost 13 of the transplanted…
Luna 20170603
While prepping the scope and waiting for the double shadow transit of Jupiter to start, I did a few quick 30 second imaging runs of the moon. Of note is…
Jupiter 20170603 double shadow transit
2017 June 01, 02 and 03 were the first string of three days in a row of Jupiter imaging that I can remember.. Granted two of those days were just…
Fireball Monday 20170529 ending 23:24:01 EDT
A nice fireball reported to us by a local observer who witnessed it live. Very much to our south and captured by our older Allsky1 camera system during an 80…
Jupiter 20170527
First time in a month and 10 days to attempt to image Jupiter. Popped outside quickly around 21:00 EDT, pointing was bad, tracking was bad. 1st attempt at 30 seconds…
Middle of May
Here we are in the middle of May already. The Black Flies, here for two weeks now, continue to inhibit all outdoor activity. Event with bug hats, jackets and gloves,…
cool spring
This is a southbound view of Highway #38 near Murvale, with the flood waters receded back from the eastern lane. Yesterday it covered the eastern lane and the western lane…
Jupiter 20170417
After an annoying hockey game last(Monday) night (Boston lost), I attempted some imaging of Jupiter. After 30 minutes of attempting to obtain a successful alignment, i said nasty words and…
Peas are in the ground
The Peas went into the ground this past weekend, into Veg9, a 15’x4′ raised bed that hosted tomatos last year. Kim double planted over last year, so we should get…