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SATURday, MARCH 6, 2010welcome to the off-site areaThese pages contains companion material to my lumpy darkness blog (over at blogger.com). The pages are stored on my corporate server (for a variety of reasons). Below, you'll find links to presentations I have delivered and the handouts provided. The telescope links on the right access separate 'scope pages for my Mom and me. We keep detailed information and photographs here of equipment and accessories. In the tradition of naturalists, birders, and astronomers, I keep "life lists" of astronomical sightings and accomplishments. You'll find reference materials in the "other" area. For example, if you need to include Greek characters in your web pages, see my notes. Finally, I've included a variety of links to web sites: magazines, retail stores in Ontario, clubs, weather and sky condition sites, space telescopes, and so on. Not an all-encompassing list by any stretch, just ones I regularly use... dark skies,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012portal experimentTrying to make some portal-like pages for analysing weather conditions. I.e. a page with "everything" in one spot.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012new checklistI made a new checklist. It is for when I record double star drifts. It will hopefully remind me of all the things I need to do and gather for a successful recording (so to enable a successful reduction).
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011SkyTools 3 software demoSkyTools by Skyhound is amazing software. If you respond to targets and goals, if you're pursuing astronomy certificates, you may find SkyTools indispensable. I delivered a presentation on the Standard Edition at the RASC Toronto Centre Recreational Astronomy Night meeting (on 7 Dec 2011) wherein I briefly demonstrated key features in the powerful application. A handout was also provided. Both the PowerPoint file and Word document have been converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
Happy planning!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011gallery launchedIt occurred to me that I've shot enough astroimages now that I should collect them into a single page. Well, at least small versions. You'll find thumbnails on the gallery page. Each mini image links to the blog article when the image was captured. There you will find a larger version of the image along with details of how the image was obtained. Have fun!
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011Ursa Minor imageAdded an image of the Ursa Minor constellation so to help with naked eye magnitude testing when not using paper log sheets. This is a natural presentation, light stars on a black background, to better simulate the appearence in the sky. Magnitude numbers embedded into the image.
MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010meteor watching soundsWith a Sony linear PCM recorder, I briefly captured the experience of watching for Perseid meteors at the RASC Toronto Centre CAO observatory on the Blue Mountains. It's just over 3 minutes long. stereo sound byte (4.4 MB, MP3 format, 44.1kHz, 192kbps)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010to do listCreated a new page lists things I want to do (or repeat). For those evenings when I feel directionless...
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010magnitude life listCreated a new page which shows my career magnitude limits, noting location, equipment used, etc.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010switched computers and versionsSome boring behind-the-scenes useless information that you don't need to bother reading, really. I moved the local host "master" copy of the companion lumpy darkness material to a different computer, John Smallberries, from an old computer, Lord John Whorfin, that I am slowly retiring. It was on Whorfin that I was using my terribly old version of Dreamweaver for Windows; Smallberries has a somewhat less old version. Should not affect how these pages look, per se, in theory, I hope (he says, eye twitching). If anything, the XHTML/CSS should be a bit cleaner... The main reason? Convenience. Fring benefits? The CSS is rendered better as I edit. I can see Greek characters displayed! Me me me.
Sunday, February 14, 2010'scopes in spacePreviously, in the science page, I had a couple of links to space observatories, notably Hubble. But with all the space telescopes and space probes out there, I thought this might merit a separate page. Not hooked into the menu yet...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009Stellarium 0.10.2 software demoTry Stellarium. It's a very good astronomy program for teaching, planning, review. Best part, it's free! Below is a copy of the handout I provided during a presentation to the RASC Toronto Centre. It notes the features of Stellarium, some gotchas, where to download it. It is saved in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Stellarium 0.10.2 handout (255 KB)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009occultations page addedNow that I've taken an interest in asteroid occultations, and have already participated in a couple of events, I realised I needed to log these incidents.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008DIY TFOV template presentationMake your own True Field Of View rings for your star charts so to better use your eyepieces in your telescope(s). This presentation was delivered at the RASC members' night meeting (on 15 Oct 2008). Originally, a PowerPoint 2003 file; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Enjoy.
Thursday, March 20, 2008OneWorld weather station presentationBelow is the presentation from the RASC members' night meeting (delivered on 19 Mar 2008). This slide show featured the OneWorld tws1000 portable weather station (available at Canadian Tire). Originally, a Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 file; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Also included is the handout comparing Oregon Scientific eb313hg and the OneWorld units.
Hope you enjoy them.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007Oregon weather station presentationUploaded the presentation from the members' night meeting (delivered on 19 Sep 2007). This slide show featured the Oregon Scientific eb313hg portable weather station. Originally, a PowerPoint 2003 file; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
Enjoy.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007Awenda presentation filesUploaded the presentation files from the Awenda Provincial Park astronomy lecture (delivered on 16 Aug 2007). Originally, PowerPoint 2003 files; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Enjoy.
Monday, January 15, 2007library page addedHaving added a few new books to the collection lately, I thought it high time I document all of them.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007new pointerSlight change to the menus in this site: created a "pointer" to emphasise which page you are presently viewing. Hope you like it!
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