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,…
sbig st237a oddities
Yesterday we noticed that the Allsky camera CCD temperature was listed as 0 deg C. That might happen if the night is particularly warm (say 20-25 deg C) but that…
Fall’N’Stars 2011
Fall’N’Stars 2011 Star Party The 12th Annual Star Party of the Belleville & Kingston Centres of the RASC was held on the weekend of Sept 23-25 and was a blast.…
Processing .FITS image headers
For some years now we have wanted to process the .FITS allsky camera original images a little better. Specifically it would be nice to pull out the CCD Temperature and…
New observing project!
You may remember reading the article earlier about our pier failure. After we decided to reuse refurbish and make the pier operational agian, a projcet idea developed to put a…
telescope maintenance
The RASC-KC’s 20cm Fitzgerald telescope has been dedicated to the KAON Queens University Observatory Open House nights for eight years now and it hasn’t been looked at for at least…
Napanee Food Bank Garden Week 11
This was our 11th week since we were assigned rows 6,7 and 26 to look after in the Napanee Food Bank Garden. These images are from our week 11 visit…