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…
Jupiter Wed 2015 Nov 04
Another great morning to be out before sunrise and imaging Jupiter. This time was between 05:15 and 05:40 EST with the last quarter moon getting close. This was a 60…
Linux Fedora 23 released
It’s always a good day when a new Fedora Linux gets released. Today was Fedora 23. There was no real rush to upgrade… we were already on kernel version 4.2…
Jupiter in the morning
It’s been awhile, but we made it outside this morning around 05:00 EDT to do some planetary observing and imaging before the clouds came in. I ended up using the…
widespread power outage oct 27th 2015
Yay! The day before the remnants of Hurricane Patricia (from down Puerto Vallarta Mexico way) were scheduled to run over us, the city of Kingston Ontario and the surrounding area,…
Whats Up This Week?
What’s up this week? From the RASC 2015 Calendar Saturday 2015 Oct 24 Venus 1.7 deg upper right of Jupiter before sunrise Sunday 2015 Oct 25 Venus 1.2 deg right…
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), at the Napanee Firehall Community Room, 7pm.…
Election day results vs forecast
The moral of this story… polls can be wrong, are most certainly wrong. In the case of our riding, they were off by 11% of the vote. —— Of note…
Election Day 2015
Of note today is the website http://www.threehundredeight.com/p/canada.html where they have the latest forecasts, updated yesterday, of all of the polls into a riding by riding breakdown. We are going to…
List of garlic planted in 2015
We’ve been asked by several people to post the master list of all of the various garlic types we plant. Below is the list of what went into the ground…
Latest frost data
We’ve been running a weather station here since 2003 and as a result, have local data for temperatures. This has been especially important as our vegetable and flower gardens really…
Morning Planetary Conjunction
Up early on the morning of Saturday 2015 October 10th, before sunrise, to see (from top to bottom) Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Moon. Mercury was coming up but did not clear…
garlic 2015
The results of 4 hours of planting out 74 types of garlic, over 500 cloves in all, for the 2015/2016 crop. It was a wonderful day, cloudy to start, sunny…