Laptop upgrade
A few month back we successfully replaced a toshiba laptop 2.5″ spinning hard drive with a 120GB SSD (solid state Drive). It was a simple single primary NTFS partition that…
Somewhat Clear Skies but no aurora
It has been cloudy or very cold for too many weeks now. We came home from an astronomy meeting and it was not that cold (-8C) and not that windy…
2013 departs
The end of 2013 came and went with one of our traditional bonfires and fireworks in the bitter cold. We did not last long with the cold and the wind…
Canon A2400IS bites the dust
This was our only digital camera, a Canon A2400IS. We got it in September of 2012 and up until 2 months ago, have been ecstatic about it. It was high…
ice storm 2013
Ice Storm 2013 ran from December 19th through the 22nd. We personally suffered a single 5 second power outage on the afternoon for Saturday the 21st. No tree damage so…
Castle
We’ve recently started watching the Crime drama series Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, whom we first met in the SF series Firefly. We’ve been binge watching and just completed season2. Lotsa…
Linux Fedora 19 to 20 updates a breeze
Linux Fedora 20 was released earlier this week and the operating system updates on all but one server went the smoothest, fastest and with the least issues ever. The standard…
the Hobbit – desolation of smaug
The Hobbit 2 aka The Desolation of Smaug – was released just over a week ago but we did manage to find the time to sit in the 2 hour…
Geminids 2013
This is the compilation image of 91 meteors imaged last night (2013 Friday/Saturday December 13/14) of the Geminid meteor shower from the Allsky2 camera system. North is down, east is…
The Hobbit Part 2
The Hobbit, Part 2 aka The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug It’s here! Peter Jacksons’ vision of The Hobbit, based one of the classic Fantasy works of all time. It…
wordpress update
There was a wordpress update to the site this morning and it broke a little of the theme we were using at the time. So this is a quick choice…
Holiday Movie Must See List
What’s your holiday must see movie list? The ones that you watch over and over and over again, without fail, every year? In no particular order, here are some of…
Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society meeting
Last night (Wednesday December 4th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its annual Christmas Pot Luck Dinner and Annual General Meeting. Smart planning scheduled the pot luck meal…
Christmas Day Who?
From http://www.blastr.com/2013-12-4/bbcs-xmas-trailer-reveals-new-footage-time-doctor The BBC has released a brand new trailer featuring its Christmas programs line-up along with some new teasing bits from Doctor Who. “The Time of the Doctor”—which will…
tech failures
Over the last two weeks we’ve had some tech failures in the computing area here at Starlight Cascade. First we investigated a very loud noise coming from the observatory one…