Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Another cold night but at least it cleared. This is Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on the evening of Monday 2015 January 12th around 19:29EST taken with a Canon Powershot ELPH…
Elementary
There is a lot more television out there than there used to be. And sometimes it is actually getting better than it used to be. Elementary is an example of…
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Finally! A night without horrible cloud cover and snow! There was a mostly full moon however, but still we were able to visually observe Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy with 10×50…
gas gas gas
Some interesting numbers from the past 4 years. We record information at every gas fillup with our vehicle and we do try to manage the balance between dollar averaging purchases…
A Light at Night
Upper Canada Village is a heritage park in the village of Riverside near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. We first visited it earlier in the…
Allsky1 Reno
This is the Allsky1 Camera System running at SCGO since 2006 December (now 8 years old!) It is an ST237A SBIG camera with an integrated wide angle lens mounted inside…
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…