And… we’re off to the mountain! The forecast for the next few days includes a mix of clear sky and cloud, with pm showers or thundershowers today and tomorrow. Steadily clear skies before mid-week. You can keep up with the …
There’s a good chance we’ll start with a cloudy evening after an unsettled day that might include a shower or a real downpour (40% chance of a shower w/ risk of thundershowers in the area). But if rain clears the …
This image is of the morning sky taken at the last MKSP in 2019. For this all you need is a good cell phone camera, this shows the Milky Way in Perseus. Also there is The Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxies.
Are you getting ready for MKSP? The last time I took my rig out to BC was in 2019 for MKSP. This was snapped on our way to the Star Party. at the rest area just across the Kicking Horse …
Fr. Lucian Kemble attended the MKSP back in its first decade. I found him delightful in conversation, which was continually interrupted on our walks whenever he saw a little weed poking through a clump of mud, prompting him to exclaim …
Long before an observatory on Mt. Kobau was contemplated, Canadians were among the world’s leaders in visual astronomy. In 1910, a proposal for a 72” telescope came within a whisker of giving our young country the world’s largest telescope. Delayed …