Meade DS90 telescope and mount
This is a short 480p video that shows the issue with this donated telescope.
(10062) kim hay imaged!
A great big thank you to Malcolm for his imaging of Minor Planet (10062) kimhay last night… from Chile! 12 x 600s exposures TEC140 at 1024mm focal length, f/7 with…
Jupiter 20240101
2023 ended with 55 observatory imaging sessions, slightly above the goal of 50 set one year ago. The goal this year is 60 imaging sessions. 2024 started well Monday evening…
Souffle Tradition
In honour of Doctor Who in general, Jenna Coleman (the actress portraying various Oswald characters) in specific, we decided to try and make a souffle on Christmas Day in 2013.…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2023Dec14
Above/left is the night of Dec 12/13 Below is the SCGO Allsky2/UWO10 camera system meteor detection summary image showing 57 events of Dec 13/14. This system is designed for fireballs…
Supersid 2023Dec
The SCGO Supersid system has been running since 2016. For the first few years it ran on a windows computer with windows supersid software. This 2023 spring we moved to…
Jupiter 2023Nov24
It was a busy busy Friday evening.. what with it being the only clear night for the next week or so. The new ZWO miniscope was mounted to the Vixen…
Garlic list of planted cloves 2023 Fall
SCGO garlic plants 2023 October last updated 2023Nov26 VegBed4’s eastern end going from north to south. The signage is laminated laser printed names staples to 1×2″x1′ stakes. We planted on…
Minor Planet (20021) Kevinkell
(20021) Kevinkell = 1991 VM6 Discovery: 1991-11-06 / E. W. Elst / La Silla / 809 Kevin Kell (b. 1963) is a Canadian amateur astronomer who has served RASC Kingston…
Garlic Planting 2023
And it is DONE again! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2023. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the…
Partial Annular Solar Eclipse 20231014
This image was taken just after maximum eclipse. Serendipitously an aircraft flew right over it. We missed the actual aircraft part but we did catch the contrails left by its…
Garlic Harvest 2023 Data
The 2023 Garlic Harvest is complete. Over the course of 4 mornings, Kim dug up, organized, tied and hung up approx 1392 garlic plants. They dried over the next 3…
Jupiter 20230922
The best of this mornings imaging run of Jupiter. The best 5% which also shows Europa in the upper left and the great red spot as well. The latest animated…
Garlic Harvest and Processing 2023 complete
Phew! Kim worked hard and has completed the processing of the 2023 SCGO Garlic Harvest. This involved cutting the tops and bottoms off, cleaning the dirt off and then measuring…
Jupiter 2nd night 20230828
From later in the morning on Monday. Jupiter was almost overhead… 60 degrees of altitude! very little if any atmospheric dispersion in colouring but still not absolutely clear or steady.…