Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I spent a long time learning wavesharp2 and am loving it.  It's quite flexible and the animations are superior to those I have been maki...

 Some of these I refuse to believe are different galaxies and are merely a glitch in the matrix instead. Enjoy! A few I'll be revisiting...

A backlog of mediocre production.  I was out 18 times between January and July.  Here's a smattering of 5 random ones.  Other's are ...

1st, Rick and Morty fan here and I never realized that Makemake is literally birdperson!   I was able to find this new edition to the dwarf ...

 Just notes, nothing fancy.... Did collimation in West for jove, did stellar collimation but rushed and incomplete but 3/5Seeing.. Moved to ...

I couldn't be more thrilled with how this turned out! As a novice, every image I capture feels like a milestone, and this one is no exce...

  Checking for target while imaging, as I nearly always do, I spied a tiny galaxy in a pretty dark portion of the sky, NGC6166.  Solved with...