Megan and Dad's Catch!

We were relocating a lizard from our unfinished storage to the creek near the main road and found not only tadpoles, but also small fish (not caught) and CRAYFISH! I had no idea they were happily living in the creek in my back yard!

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Great view of the boring side of Jupiter

Seeing might have been best on night 2/4 last weekend.  Too bad it's the boring side, but I really could stare at this shot and let it soak in.

As always, the whole season is up here on my web.com homepage!

Really old lunar photo but 1st flea3

Seeing wasn't so great, but at the time I was trying to experiment a bit and found a cool feature!  I'll have to revisit this when seeing is better!

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Make sure you click image titles for a larger view.  They're fitted for the web.com main page rss feed!

                Be sure to try to cross your eyes and make the moon pop out!

As Mitch Duke can attest to we've had some good seeing around here the past week. I attribute it much to a stalled high bounded by Hurricane Earl, which thankfully is only brushing our coast and not bashing it!

Anyway in a vain effort to compete with the world class images popping out of the wood work, I offer my humble 8" from night 1 of 4 ( a personal best).

I also grabbed some Uranus shots this night too, which I'm still assembling.

I will probably post the remainder of my work up on the new website:

http://maphilli14.webs.com/ 

Be sure to try to trick your mind and or cross your eyes on this one as it WILL make the moon pop out in front of those shark tooth shapes in the sSEB.

                                              150% sized!

                                          Mono channels

Uranus with 4 or 5 moons

You decide if I got elusive Miranda or not.  I found some Flea3 tips from Anthony Wesley that might help me net out a better set, including needed darks too!

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Here's the mouse over version with NASA's JPL overlay.  It wasn't spot on aligned, so either I was off on the time or speed of light delay.

http://maphilli14.webs.com/Astronomy/8-Webs/SolarSystem/Uranus/2010/Mouse-Over-Template.html

Witch's Broom Nebula

Ton's of great Astro weather here of late.  Here's the coolest Deep Sky Object I got from last night.  I got some other's and LOTS of Jupiter photos to get to, but thought this was worth a post of it's own!

Michael Alexander Phillips' Star

On December 25, 1993 I was given a gift of a International Star Registry star named Michael A. Phillips.

On July 2/3, 2010 I found and photographed it!

Here's the high-res photos and star charts.