New Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) receiver goes live
We recently received a SID receiver that will detect solar storms impacting the Earth’s Ionosphere. It consists of a coiled loop antenna, in our case oriented east-west, connected to the…
Allsky camera vs the wasps
We’ve noticed wasps attempting to build nests up against the outside housing of the allsky1 camera system. We’ve taken them down twice and just noticed more wasps congregating yet again.…
Repurposing an old pier
This is a solar radio telescope pier from the decommissioned Algonquin Radio Telescope site in Ontario. We picked it up a few years ago with the intent to stick a…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden Updated
It is well into drought now.. no real rain for weeks. We stopped in to do some weeding and watering at the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday July…
Weather sensors
Weather sensor positioning is very much a fine art. Over the 10 years of running a weather station here at Starlight Cascade Observatory & Gardens, we have moved the sensors…
Manduca quinquemaculata
From wikipedia.org The five-spotted hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) is a brown and gray hawk moth of the Sphingidae family. The caterpillar, often referred to as the tomato hornworm, can be a…
Graphics coprocessors (GPUs)
In the great scheme of processing SETI@Home radio telescope data since 1999 April 12, I have mostly relied on well-behind-the-leading-edge of computer hardware. A few months ago I was fortunate…
Web server hardware upgrade trials
This web site, and others that the server hosts, is scheduled for some new hardware in the near future. In preparation for the switchover, the site may be down for…
KAON Open House Saturday July 14th, 2012
The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) held an open house, lecture and public observing session on Saturday July 14th, 2012 from 21:00-22:30 EDT at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory.…
L&AHortSoc and the Napanee Library
Week two at the Napanee Library saw us going around the entire building and collecting a lot of thistles/weeds. That combined with the efforts of other L&A Hort members that…
How we harvest garlic
Garlic harvest came early this year and Kim finished it off Saturday morning. When is garlic reday to harvest? In the Kingston Ontario region, normally around the end of July.…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden work
We dropped by the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden on Thursday July 12th to do some work, mainly weeding and watering. It has been hot and dry with not a…
Weather Summary 2012
hmm good for another table (of weather data from the starlightcascade gardens) month 2012 average temp (day & night) rainfall (mm) january -4.2C 51mm february -2.1C 11mm march 5.6C 47mm…
Garlic Harvest has started
It was a great weekend with highs of 29 and 27 but still fairly dry. We had 2mm of rain early Saturday morning… not even enough to get the ground…
L&AHortSoc and the Napanee Library
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society has taken on the community service job of tending to the gardens at the Napanee Library. We visited the site on Sunday July 1st,…