Full Moon 20240524
After 2-3 years of attempts, this snapshot of the full moon may be finally the image I was looking for. No other combination of telescope, camera lens, and camera gave…
Science Rendezvous 2024
Science Rendezvous Kingston is an educational outreach event led by Queen’s University. This year again it was held in the downtown area, recently renamed to the Slush Puppy Place, on…
Aurora! 20240510
The first major aurora we have seen since 2023 March 23… it’s been a long time. This is the allsky1 camera footage in the form of a video This is…
minor planet opposition resource
This website was brought to our attention and it a great aid in planning to image minor planets! https://doncarona.tamu.edu/apps/minorbody/opposition/ https://kingston.rasc.ca/asteroids The following RASC-KC members and past members who have had…
20240408 total solar eclipse – allsky1
One of the many data recorders we had running during the eclipse, was our allsky1 camera system, configured to take images in the daytime. It saved one to two images…
20240408 total solar eclipse – radio jove
For those that have to deal with clouds interfering with visual astronomy, we have some words for you: Radio Astronomy! Our Radiojove telescope system was up and running during the…
Is it spring yet?
Is it spring yet? This image from 13 years ago shows snow… much like it was over this past weekend. We continued to be optimistic and built two more new…
Jupiter 20240317
The SCGO Serenity Observatory Imaging Kit was disassembled for maintenance and possible upgrades as the forecast was rain rain rain snow for the next serveral days. And then of course…
Gardening has sprung
A short trip to the Selby TCO Agromart resulted in this: a 50″x16′ cattle panel. It is going to make the best climbing trellis that we have ever had for…
Jupiter 20240312
Last night was the first opportunity in some days to do some more work on the mount. Previously I had raised the mount adapter by 2cm and also… forgot to…
Lunar Mosaic v3
This is the 3rd version of the lunar mosaic that was created with autostakkert! v4, registax and ms image composite editor (ICE). The first one was overexposed (1ms), the second…
Jupiter 2024Feb14
Planetary Imaging during a RASCKC monthly meeting. I love it! This was from the evening of Wednesday 2024 Feb14th and seeing and transparency seemed to be almost dare I say…
Autostakkert!V3 vs V4
I was made aware of an update to Autostakkert! a mainstay of my astronomical image processing. I have been using V3 for some years now… V4 is now out. AutoStakkert!…
Jupiter 20240129 and its funky moons
An unusual sequence of events occurred with Jupiter and its moons on the evening of Monday 2024 January 29th. The moon Europa moving right to left, disappeared in behind Jupiter.…
winter 2024
Winter has finally arrived to our area, and with it, no or limited access to the Supersid radio telescope and the RadioJove telescope system. Both are offline and have been…