HSGeo
Our newly renamed Heirloom Seed Growers (of Eastern Ontario) aka HSGeo met this past weekend in more of a social setting and with an eye to wrapping up the past…
Post The Hobbit
We bought tickets in advance, had dinner in town and arrived at the theatre 35 minutes before showtime. No lineups. Hmmm.. Each of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy had…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2012 Day 2
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 113 events last night (Dec 13/14, 2012) Of those 9 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)……
interesting items
I started reading Tom Clancy way back when “The Hunt for Red October” was released in 1984. The next few books in time tailored nicely into my military interests of…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2012
The SCO Allsky2 camera/UWO camera10 captured 105 events last night (Dec12/13, 2012) Of those 33 were false positives (a bit of condensation inside the dome and passing car headlights)… so…
L&A Horticultural Society last meeting of 2012
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society last meeting of the year was Wednesday December 5th, 2012. As luck would have it, it was a potluck dinner. We never know how…
Christmas Show Time
Every christmas, everyone sits down to watch various favourite christmas shows. We started yesterday with: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) Frosty the Snowman (1969) Christmas Vacation (1989) Blackadder’s Christmas Carol…
Dr. Who (2005) update
We have now finished watching the fourth season of Doctor Who (2005) last night, and just started in with Season 5 Episode 1 with the surprising appearance of Matt Smith…
New night sky views of earth, north america and the kingston ontario region
RELEASE: 12-422 NASA-NOAA SATELLITE REVEALS NEW VIEWS OF EARTH AT NIGHT WASHINGTON — Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed…
The Hobbit
It’s almost here…Peter Jacksons’ vision of The Hobbit, based one of the classic Fantasy works of all time. It comes out on Friday December 14th, is a little less than…
Mercury Greatest Elongation
Tomorrow, 2012 December 04, Tuesday, Mercury will be at its greatest elongation W (21 deg) for the best viewing of the year. This screen capture comes from a great planetarium…
Napanee’s Garden Club meets early, Wednesday Dec 05
The next meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society is Wednesday evening December 6th, 2012. This is a special year end pot luck social event rather than a regular…
summer growing days revisited
We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons. 1) In…
seti@home update
An update on our seti@home progress. Yay! After first joining the effort on April 12, 1999, 1:58 pm Over 13 years now dedicated to signal processing radio telescope data. We…