radiojove antenna modifications
Radiojove antennas at 15′ RadioJove antennas at 10′ It’s that time of year (April 2012).. or years, that the average declination of Jupiter is increasing, from a minimum in 2008…
The Adventures of Dora
Today, Dora experienced her first guarded excursion outside. Armed with spritz bottle , one person on the deck, and one off, she explored the deck. The flutter of birds, the…
Magnificent ISS Pass
The International Space Station (ISS) made an overhead pass this morning that was caught on 4 frames of the allsky camera. These were stitched together with a small delay into…
Earth Hour Saturday March 31st, 2012
We observed Earth Hour on Saturday March 31st, 2012 from 20:00-21:00. Whups! The real Earth hour was from 20:30 to 21:30. Oh well.. we shut down everything we could, went…
Seed Sanctuary Workshop
Sisters of Providence Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Workshop Saturday April 21, 2012 2-3:30pm – Gentle transplanting workshop + Earth Day All are welcome, refreshments included, no fees but donations are welcome.…
dead file server
2012 March 29 As we’ve written about many times, we have a lot of automated data collection going on that includes but is not limited to: allsky camera images radiojove…
tomato planting weekend
This weekend (the last of March) is tomato planting weekend! We will be selecting our heirloom tomato seeds, planting maybe 10% more than we have space for to allow for…
triple conjunction 2012 march 26
Another nice clear night for imaging the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter in this 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 on a tripod. It was very…
triple conjunction 2012 march 25th
This is the triple conjunction of Venus (top), the Moon and Jupiter (bottom), in a 15 second exposure with a Canon Powershot A540 camera on a tripod. This completes a…
CAVE Lecture in Astronomy
CAVE Memorial Lecture Location: Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy Stirling Hall Theatre D, Bader Lane, Queen’s University Thursday March 29th, 2012 8pm. Chris Impey (University of Arizona) CAVE…
L&AHortSoc
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society met Wednesday evening (March 21st, 2012) at 7pm in the training room at the Napanee Fire Station. 25 people were in attendance to hear…
1st day of spring
Tuesday March 20th, 2012. The first day of spring with temperature at home hitting 29 deg C. In reality they probably did not hit quite that high as the outdoor…
Almost new moon
3 days before the new moon, before sunrise on Monday morning March 19th, 2012. This 15 second exposure was taken with a Canon powershot A495 camera on a tripod, looking…
blood suckers have arrived
no, not lawyers… mosquitos. Today is Sunday 2012 March 18, a wonderful hot day. A good seed savers meeting, back home to work in the greenhouse and a little bit…
Jupiter & Venus apparition
This is the series of nights where it has been clear, we’ve been home and able to do some imaging with our Canon Powershot A495 and A540 cameras on tripods.…