Jupiter 20160506 UT
Went outside to clear skies and a bit of a wind to test out the celestron nextar GT mount. In the meantime I fired up a new beta of firecapture…
Season of Dirt
There we go… our annual purchase of dirt to help create flower and veg beds on our rocky rocky land. This is 7yds of triple mix earth running at about…
Telescope mount reno
The Transit of Mercury is coming up soon and we are still scrambling to put together a tracking telescope mount in case we have to go travelling to get out…
Ontario Canada Electricity rates, highest in North America?
A news story today from http://www.640toronto.com/syn/104/88985/hydro-rates-climbing-ont *** It’s now going to be just a little bit pricier to do your laundry or run the dishwasher in the middle of the…
Jupiter 20160428
Another attempted Jupiter imaging session Wednesday evening.. I know I know, up against “Survivor!” There was high passing cloud that “Clear Outside” said was 2%. Ha! It sure was lit…
Jupiter 20160427
An imaging session of Jupiter on Tuesday evening 2016 April 26 EDT, April 26/27 UT Sometimes it gets confusing, but all of the images are annotated in UT time, to…
Jupiter 20160423
Finally! Success! After three years + I have finally gotten an autoguiding system to work. Wow. This is going to be a game changer. In the past, because of the…
Sid2 shut down
We shut down SID2, the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance system on Sunday 2016 April 24th. Over the last 2 years we have set it up indoors, moved it to an outside…
Jupiter 20160420
Wednesday evening showed a two day shy full moon lighting up the sky, but with Jupiter a fair ways up the sky. Always a good time to practice practice practice,…
Mars 20160417
Mars was actually a better target than Saturn was Sunday morning. Certainly brighter. The scale is also the same as the last two images. First time ever I am confident…
Saturn 20160417
Got up a little late on Sunday morning.. it was twilight already and Saturn was just about to go behind some trees. Wow.. the altitude is quite low! Note the…
Jupiter 20160417
Went outside for 15 minutes after getting home late Saturday night and did a couple of quick imaging runs of Jupiter. The Moon was getting brighter and closer to Jupiter…
GARDENING BEGINS!
This past weekend had our highest temperatures and best sun this year. What to do? Garden prep! 3 raised beds: weeds were cultivated out with a shallow pass of the…
LX200GPS command and control
I am attempting to upgrade the software command and control of the meade lx200gps (2003) and have some issues. The only software I have that has run reliably is handyavi…
Jupiter 20160414
Poor seeing and poor transparency with a 46% full moon less than 1/2 a sky away. GRS just leaving off the right side. Very smeary, fuzzy. Only did 11 runs…