5 days to Dr. Who, 6 Days to the Grey Cup
hmm. room to get confused. Start with the Saturday event: Five days to ” The Day of the Doctor”, the 50th anniversary special of the science fiction television series Dr.…
6 days and counting… Dr. Who
The tension is building. Last night we caught a great show with Brian Cox on The Science of Dr. Who. He is a very smooth talking physicist who puts on…
8 Days to Dr. Who
Eight days to ” The Day of the Doctor”, the 50th anniversary special of the science fiction television series Dr. Who. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor The Day of the Doctor premieres on…
9 Days to Dr. Who
Nine days to ” The Day of the Doctor”, the 50th anniversary special of the science fiction television series Dr. Who. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor The Day of the Doctor premieres on…
Comets C/2012 S1 ISON
This is Comet C/2012 D1 ISON, seen from our backyard early this morning (Thursday 2013 November 14) around 05:30 EST. It was a consumer Canon A2400IS pocket camera running CHDK…
10 days to Dr. Who
Ten days to ” The Day of the Doctor”, the 50th anniversary special of the science fiction television series Dr. Who. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor The BBC intends to broadcast the episode…
Go Riders!
The Saskatchewan Roughriders narrowly made it past the BC Lions on Sunday November 10th, 2013 in the Western Semi-final Canadian Football League game. Yes it was -12 C Yes it…
google nexus 7 woes
For the last week of so we have had serious issues with our 1 year old google nexus 7 tablet. The behaviour has been: It starts up, displays the “google”…
Fireball over Yarker UT 2013Nov08 06:58:27
Fireball over Yarker Ontario at UT 2013Nov08 06:58:27 The video has also been uploaded for this event. Allsky2 camera system. This is a compilation image of many short exposure images…
Solar Eclipse
Sunday morning 2013 November 03, there was a solar eclipse, in progress as the sun rose that morning. In any event we were onsite (a nearby hill with a good…
CFL Regular season is done
2013 was a much better year for the Saskatchewan Roughriders Canadian Football League team… but it could have been a little better. Last saturdays last season game against the last-place-in-the-western-division…
ScienceCast
We didn’t find out until today but a short clip from one of our allsky cameras was used in a short science cast video on the net, located here (…
Telescope Mirror Cleaning
On Sunday October 27th 2013, 6 members of the Kingston Astronomy Club got together to remove, clean and replace the two optical mirrors in the 16″ telescope. The entire process…
Garlic planting 2013
Today, Saturday October 19th, 2013, looked like the last nice day this season before it got cold and wet and gross. Over the course of two hours prepping the signage,…
Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society meeting
Last night (Wednesday October 16th, 2013) the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society held its regular monthly. The turnout was 21 people and we enjoyed presentations from the guest speaker: Nicolette…