Christmas Day
A wonderful Christmas Day after a very windy night. Still a good +8C today. We started off the day with making a Cheese Souffle, with thanks to Oswin Oswald in…
Jupiter 20151219
Went out twice this morning… first time between 04:55 and 05:04.. haze and cloud moving in, good gusts of wind that moved the scope. Went out again later when it…
Dr. Arthur McDonald – Nobel Prize in Physics
Metamorphosis in the particle world The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 recognises Takaaki Kajita in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald in Canada, for their key contributions to the experiments which…
L&A Hort met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (meetings are normally the 3rd Wednesday of the month, but this month was early), at the…
2001 flashback
This is from Fall’N’Stars 2001, the first RASC Belleville/RASC Kingston joint star party held at Camp Sagonaska at Vanderwater Conservation Area near Thomasburg Ontario. The Longhouse were we had dinner…
1984 Flashback
More scanned slides from the distant past… why not put them up and remember what things were like back in the days of Ghostbusters!
Jupiter 2015Nov20
A few issues came up this morning while imaging Jupiter around 04:30-05:15 EST Of the 15 runs made, only 6 turned out. The rest had to be thrown out due…
L&A Hort met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of the month), at the Napanee Firehall Community Room, 7pm. It…
Jupiter 20151117
jupiter20151117-0950UTC Best images to date! Great morning. Outside at 04:30 EST, packed up before 05:30 EST At the time it may not always seem like a good idea, but in…
Jupiter 2015 Nov 10
This is an animated .GIF of the three processed images from this morning. This morning saw poor seeing and poor-average transparency from about 05:20-05:45 EST whilst imaging the Giant Planet…
Jupiter 2015 Nov 09
Another good morning of imaging of Jupiter, after some upgrades to the observatory were performed yesterday. The roof guide rails were 2″x4″ x8′ and were replaced by 2″x3″. This prevented…
Solar Sketching and mixed media
November 8, 2015 1:10pm-2:05 pm (18:10-19:05 UT) What a great day to spend time outside. The sun is shinning , a crisp fall breeze from the North, and only a…
Jupiter 2015 Nov 08
Another nice morning… seeing average to good, transparency average to good. The best image of Jupiter this morning as the corrector plate heater failed and it completely fogged over. This…
Fedora 23 progress
To date we have had 4 of 5 linux fedora 23 updates completed, so far all without issue. Of particular note was an update from a troublesome system running fedora…