Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

Every year since 2008 I have assembled my own images in a mashup format.  Inspired by  +Mike Salway   ( http://www.mikesalway.com.au/ ) I ha...

This is a very **UNFAIR** comparison of CCD to DSLR!  It's unfair because of the following. Differences Taken on different nights ...

Be sure to get to the bottom of this for something unique that I've never done before! Weak spring astronomy weather, shoot three...

This month was full of many clear days.  I took advantage First up is NGC 100, which according to http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc1.ht...

Taken over the span of 36 minutes on September 28th, 2014.  I was able to image; Titania (mag. 13.9), dimmest Miranda (mag. 16.5), Ariel (ma...

Mars 2014 ANIMATION! Using 7 processed and derotated source images from 7 different nights as seen in the labeled WinJUPOS map ...

This is an 11 frame sequence where each frame, of red only, consists of 10sec or 400 - 500 frame stack.  Each frame is taken back to back...

Ful RES: And animation! And facebox labels! Capture notes: Seeing makes the rings quiver and nowhere as good as a few ni...