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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…
60cm Venor dobsonian telescope
This is the RASC-KC designed and built 60 cm Newtonian Telescope in a Dobsonian mount. It was great to have out and use in dark skies, for the first time…
fall’n’stars 2014
Glorius daytime *and* nighttime skies for Friday, Saturday and Sunday! The first time in memory. It was great. This is an image from Fall’N’Stars 2014 Star party on Saturday 2014…
finished scanning 3500+ 35mm slides
After a few weeks I think we have completed the digitization of over 3500 35mm slides. It was a gas, seeing as how they have been stuck in boxes in…
L&A Hort Society met last night
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 September 17th at the Napanee Fire Hall community/training room. The topic of the night was stories from…
Aurora! From X1.6 solar flare
Great night for aurora… started strong but after 1 hour outside in +4C weather, very bight moon rising and cloud starting to come in, we also went inside. Thanks to…
X1.6 Solar Flare
On Wednesday 2014 September 10th, starting around 17:31 UT, the sun had a major X class Solar Flare coming from Sunspot AR2158. The 1st note of this was on the…