building a video finder
We have a large telescope that we are in the process of commissioning. One of the items that popped out of the process was the need for a relatively low…
Bridge building
On one of the days off this month, we needed to replace and or rebuild the small tractor bridge that goes across the creek in our backyard. It was built…
RASC-KC met Thursday 2015 May 14th
The Kingston Astronomy Club (aka The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre) met Thursday night with a great turnout of 25+ people in a very small temporary room…
L&A HortSoc met last night
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2015 May 13). There was a good turnout of 25 people. Our guest speaker Master…
Jupiter 2015May06
After catching up on a little TV, waiting for the black flies to die down, and seeing Montreal was losing yet another hockey game, we went outside around 21:00 EDT…
2 Nice Meteors 2015 May 04
wow. nice meteors Sunday night/Monday morning north is up, west is right on these images from Allsky2, aka UWO #10 Allsky1 was completely wiped out by the full Flower Moon…
Garden Prep
(Beds 1,2,3 from a previous year 🙂 Saturday saw the prep of Garden Beds 2 and 6. We are using 15kg bags of composted sheep manure with a rating of…
Torus repairs
The winter was particularly hard on the Torus scope, as a mouse like critter got into the scope and chewed through wires. When the telescope was first fired up this…
Allsky1 Reno
The Allsky1 camera system has been up and running since December 2005… coming up on 10 years! Last week, we renovated it by removing the 14″ dome, removed the 28watts…
bye bye starchoice
When we moved into the country, there was no cable television. We decided on Starchoice satellite TV at that time and generally things went well. There were weather? related outages…
Jupiter 2015 Apr 16 01:30 UT
Jupiter last night (21:23 EDT). Tried using the Televue x2.5 barlow and focus was incredibly soft. Went back to no barlow at all and this is the result. Standard 6ms…
Jupiter 2015 April 15
First image of Jupiter in the observing run last night. 2015 April 15 at 00:48 UT. Using a 20cm Meade LX200, a ZWO ASI 120MC camera, firecapture software and autostakkert!…
Saturn 2015 April 14
Saturn on the morning of Tuesday 2015 April 14th, about 04:00 EDT 20cm Meade LX200GPS (FL=2000mm) with a celestron x2 barlow (=FL=4000mm) and ZWO ASI 120MC camera. 744 frames of…