waupoos winery
It’s been a few years since we were last at the Waupoos winery down in Prince Edward County. We had been visiting every year, sometimes twice, since 2001. But times…
allsky camera and fall issues
We noticed last night that the allsky camera dome was fuzzy and foggy. Going outside we found the inside of the dome condensing and freezing in places. The 24vdc heaters…
software updates
just a short note to point out that a couple of pieces of software that we use have been updated recently. The first is the BOINC, moving up to v6.12.34…
Upcoming gardening events
Winter is approaching so it is natural for gardeners and growers to start looking through seed catalogs and thinking about the spring. NFU (National Farmers Union) NFU NEW FARM PROJECT…
Linux Fedora 16 upgrade complete
The series of updates to the linux fedora servers completed on Saturday November 19th, 2011. There were a few small issues but they seem to have been resolved for the…
Jupiter anon
Two relatively clear nights in the last week with a lot of cloud, so outside to setup the Lx200gps and do some planetary imaging with the Meade LPI imager. Jupiter…
Asteroid 2005 YU55 a bust
We were preparing to go our and observe and image the close flyby of asteroid 2005 YU55. It was scheduled to be within one degree of Altair at 18:07:30 EST…
Fedora 16 Linux coming soon
Fedora 16 linux will be released shortly and we have at least 9 machines that will need the upgrade, scheduled for the next week or two, depending on how things…
Jupiter Saturday Nov 05, 2011
This is an image of Jupiter (jupiter15-139.jpg) from last night (Saturday November 5th, 2011). It is using the Meade LPI software that integrates all on its own and this is…
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2011 Summary
Napanee Food Bank Garden 2011 Summary We kept a logbook of harvest this year and today I went through and transcribed it into a 2011foodbankgardensummary spreadsheet (11kb .pdf). Basically the…
telescope mods
Wednesday Nov 2nd saw us install a new dew shield for the LX200 made from camping foamy mattress and duct tape:) That and a 12vdc 1amp power supply to run…
Jupiter at opposition
According to our 2011 RASC Observers calendar, Jupiter was at opposition yesterday, Friday October 28th. So we were out looking at it at 6:30am EDT for a short time in…
old hardware stories
I need to test a new linux based samba run domain controller at work. So I pull out an old (10 year) spare box that has: pentium 4 celeron @2.66GHz,…