Leek moth notes
Leek moth has been a pest for a few years now and we have been looking at ways to reduce their impact on our leeks, onion and garlic crops. We…
Lasts nights allsky2 summary
The new code written to process the nights images from the allsky2 camera system has worked and the result of last night appears here: This is a compilation of 27…
Doctor Who countdown
Fans of Every Thing Doctor Who There are 45 days until the next episode of Doctor Who. That would be Saturday March 30th, 2013 for those with calendars 🙂 The…
More Imagemagick tricks
I am attempting to learn how to stack or combine or layer multiple images ontop of each other. Specifically to take all of the images of meteors taken throughout the…
Planning for spring… irrigation
We are looking at adding in better irrigation systems in our various raised garden/veg beds. In the past we have tried a few, including lee valley system tubing and sprayers,…
Bath Garden Club 2013
The Bath (Ontario) Garden Club has recently become affiliated with the Ontario Horticultural Society. They are still working on their website, so in the meantime: Next Meeting Date: February 18,…
Reminder – Canada Blooms! (2013)
Canada Blooms 2013 is coming and it is time to start thinking about whether or not to make the trek into the dreaded Toronto Traffic. Some years ago we took…
blizzard aftereffects
This is the northeast wall of the roll off roof observatory. It gets the worst of the nor’easter storms and blizzards. Unfortunately the sheer force of the driving wind tends…
Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON)
The Kingston Astronomy Outeach Network (KAON) held an open house at Queen’s University Observatory on Saturday 2013 February 09 starting at 7:30pm EST. Nathalie Ouellette, the observatory coordinator was there…
How big is Jupiter?
This is an image of Jupiter taken on 2013 Jan 10th around 18:03 EST. According to Stellarium v0.11.4, Jupiter appeared to be 45.3 arc seconds large at this time .…
L&A Hort AGM
The original post was lost in the system crash of a week or two ago… The data backups went back to only January 1st so we lost a few blog…
Amazing difference in one day
Pretty amazing what one day can do. On the right is 2013 January 29, about -9 deg C. On the left is 2013 January 30, about +13 deg C. Accompanied…
Welcome to February
This is our greenhouse. Notice how snow covered it is. THere hasn’t been enough sunlight coming into the south facing front wall to heat up the inside to melt the…
A good weekend
Things are coming along nicely. Radiojove has been showing excellent data since we turned off and removed the desktop allsky1 computer system. It was radiating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) like…