Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

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...

 Just over 1hr of only Lum, this one really surprised me!  I just find interesting targets and shoot as I go and am happy to revisit this wi...

  Just searching for targets and this came up by name, a target I've already hit, in M63.  Just practice for the most part.  No asteroid...

 I often do my planning on the fly as I am usually to busy during the day or on cloudy nights to do it ahead of time.  This is also a bit se...