Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I had taken it upon myself to go out as often as possible for this apparition.  As long as it was clear, I was out imaging.  Most nights w...

"Hey dad, guess what?" "Chicken Butt?" No Jacob's 6 years old today! Left to Right: Top: Birth, 5/14/2004 - 1YO 2...

4 years old today. Here is the mash up, birth to recent and all birthdays in between.

I kept good logs of this night, but forgot to process it! Single best of the set.... yea to me for finding it!

4 nights in December, most of which had bad seeing.  2 of them, I started with the CGE aligned and the white, 6" Schmidt-Newt on top ...

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This is my 2nd!  :) http://astronomy.fm/aapod/2010-01-01/images/aapod/2009-12-30-1262152201.png Happy New Year!

My kids, 5 and 3, could usually take or leave my hobby. Sometimes they just want to do what dad does and this was one of those nights. Perha...

Was this tutorial helpful? Yes, thanks very much!     8 I think I like the v7 better.     0 Yes, but I'd like additional information and...

Yes, my C8i SE Single Armed Fork decided to take a break.  Ironically just after I got the CGE mount back!  The power wasn't getting to ...

After my Pluto shots, I tried for the moon.  I've never really gotten a good full disk photo of the moon before.  Not one I liked at lea...

I had to make a correction to the original finding based on 3 nights (Sept 12th, 21st and 29th, 2009.  Here you'll see the positions of...

  I think I could have benefited greatly from more subs on this one.  I ended up getting all .fits instead of raws on the 1st night. ...

I was very excited to get my CGE back from repair at Celestron and as luck would have I got a good 3 nights out of 4 of clear skies an...

http://astronomy.fm/aapod/2009-09-11_Jupiter-and-Io-Tranist-in-Excellent-Seeing-with-an-8 My 1st Amateur Astronomy Picture Of The Day AAPOD

I got burned by lying, hiding clouds a week ago and a week before that was poor seeing.  So it has been 3 weeks since my last good night o...

My dad, brother and his girlfriend all came to the DCWC for some skeet before heading to the beach the next day. Hey, better late than neve...

It would have been nice to have the seeing hold as Jupiter dropped in altitude towards the time of the Wesley Impact Spot, but it did not. T...

Does it seem like Jupiter season is in full swing yet? :) Thanks to Anthony for discovering the impact strike, which I will faithfully cal...