Jupiter 20260407
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers the previous 24 hours. Seeing was a little better than…
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures outside Yarker Ontario Canada
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers the previous 24 hours. Seeing was a little better than…
Last night was a good example of the downside of rolloff observatories. Yes it was clear but it was also very windy and gusty and…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2025 2025 Note: The Data Process: Raw harvest data is transcribed from the logbook onsite into an excel spreadsheet. Quantities…
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less…
Up at 04:30 EST this morning , bundling up in the -18.2C temperature, to image as much of the total lunar eclipse that we could.…
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers…
This was the 15th year (2010-2024) of the Napanee Community Garden for the Local Food Bank. This is a small group of volunteers who plan, prepare, plant, weed, water, and…
Lucky imaging, Firecapture, ROI and cutouts Planetary Imaging took a Quantum Leap with the advent of Lucky Imaging and digital cameras. Lucky imaging is the process of taking thousands of…
Today we went out on the first day of Spring, the Equinox, and measured each vegbed to see how much of the soil had thawed. Vegbed1, raised, garden ties 2″…
This is the camera setup we used last night for the total lunar eclipse. Skywatcher Star Adventurer on a tripod Ball joint head canon T7i DSLR with a 100-300mm zoom…
This is the best image of the run of imaging of Jupiter Tuesday evening. The highlight of the night was a double moon shadow transit, Europa first and smallest and…
Whilst waiting for the double moon shadow transit on Jupiter Tuesday evening, I did a few runs of Mars imaging. The wind was brutal.. gusting and then not. It did…
Jupiter Impact Detection Besides imaging Jupiter for the outofthisworldlisness of Jupiter, its moons transitting the surface, its moon shadows transitting its surface, the Great Red Spot, bands and belts, and…
Greetings! Another night that looked promising, what with -7C before 7pm, and skies that looked clear. One hour, 16 imaging runs of Jupiter and a final temp of -15C later…
The last successful automated data upload to this website failed on 2025jan17. Just today, testing showed that it was functional again. No cause was found.. perhaps just a glitch, perhaps…
I must have been already brain frozen last night after two Jupiters (I had actually thought I did many more than that! Go Figure!), I thought to myself.. lets do…
This evening we went out at -5C thinking it would stay that way and just more than 30 minutes later, we came inside to discover the temp was in fact…
We are learning of many new things online, and especially from Country View Acres on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@CountryViewAcres In particular… more and better grow lights for starting seeds. So we picked…
This was the single best imaging run of 36 runs on a cold evening. The shadow transit is from Io, the top right moon is Ganymede. Io itself is on…
Some images of Mars…. 2024July, 2024 August with the Vixen VC200L 2024 October and last night 2025Jan09 with the Celestron C9.25 also included is the Sky&Tel Mars simulator showing topographical…
We have a new-to-us Celestron C9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain OTA and as everyone knows, the front corrector plates on SCT’s are extremely prone to dew. So we have had an external strap…