The Hobbit has arrived… or will soon!
The last of three parts to the Tolkien work “The Hobbit” will be arriving in theatres this week. We have prepared by rewatching parts 1 and 2, namely An Unexpected…
Linux Fedora 21
The latest in the Linux Fedora distribution was released Tuesday, 2014 Dec 09. It now comes in three major versions, workstation, server and the new cloud. Not sure what that…
linux drive replacement
Another data backup drive that is old and small and getting too full. The system is running linux fedora 20 on an older piece of hardware.. at least it has…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2014 December 03). There was a good turnout of 33 people in spite of the…
occultation Palinurus (4832)
Tonight, asteroid Palinurus (4832) will be occulting the star 2UCAC 34064331, magnitude 11.9. It will occur at 02:45 UT on 2014 Nov 26th, which in our time zone (-5 UT)…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2014 Nov 19). There was a good turnout of 18 people in spite of the…
convert current.png +distort DePolar 0 current-pan.png
Ever since I saw a sample of an allsky (or ultrawideangle) image being turned into a 360 deg panorama, I have known it was possible but did not know the…
adventures in Hard drive cloning
Adventures in hard drive cloning. Starting point: a linux based file server with a 320GB SATA drive as a boot drive. Overkill for sure as less than 20GB or 30GB…
Allsky camera 2 update
The replacement power supply and camera unit for Allsky2 (aka UWO10) arrived two weeks ago but has been delayed in installing for a variety of other projects already lined up…
Garlic 2014
Below is the list of names of the different types of garlic we planted this year. We are a small scale operation, planting just enough to continue planting the type…
Garlic is in the ground.
The 2014 fall garlic planting was completed on Saturday 2014 November 01, taking 11 person-hours. This is the newest vegetable bed, Veg4west. It is 6′ wide by 23′ long and…
garlic… still pending
Here it is the end of October and our garlic has not yet been planted. The pressure is mounting and the time is growing short. This two week trend forecast…
Orionid Meteor Shower
That’s about all we had… One Orionid Meteor showed up on the allsky1 camera system on the mornign of Wed 2014 Oct 22. There were two other dimmer ones that…
Jupiter at FallNStars 2014
The seeing was pretty great for our Fall’N’Stars 2014 star party. Two days of Clear and two nights of clear. Pretty amazing… still talking about it weeks later. In any…
adventures in Pi
This is the Raspberry Pi, a very small computer that has some great potential in replacing larger desktop computers and use a heck of a lot less power. I bought…