I think that I may have gotten a bit carried away during a period of paper-writing avoidance. I made this toy embalming kit for my partner (who's an embalmer) and I've learned more than I ever thought that I would about aneurysm needles, grooved directors, and Frigid Rigid. So much fun! :-)

I'm in Yellowknife this week, and sky was lovely last night. Wow. Just, wow.

Just a few more images from Elginfield Observatory. Taken with my full-spectrum Canon 7D and a 720nm filter.

As a follow-up to my last post about Space.com getting the details wrong, here's the actual press release describing our work properly...

news.westernu.ca/2025/06/came...

Although they got the details wrong, this is us :-)

www.space.com/astronomy/ea...

The image that is shown is for a single camera stack over a 24h period. Thousands of satellites (mostly LEO) are observed passing through the field-of-view, highlighting just how busy our night sky is becoming.

I decided to take a break from work today, step outside, and take a few infrared (720 nm and beyond...) pictures around the observatory. I always find observatory domes to be photogenic subjects that look good even in daylight.

While taking pictures of the lunar eclipse the other night, I thought, 'Wow, nice clouds!' while looking at the camera screen. A few shots later, I realized that they weren't clouds at all. Just an artifact of not using a filter on a full-spectrum camera. A rookie mistake, but still kind of pretty.

In a recent open-access article published in PASP the meteor-tracking spectrograph for the Canadian Automated Meteor Network (CAMO-S) is described. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....