Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

Europa puts a beauty mark on the Great Red Spot I was cruising facebook some weeks back and found one of those “On this Day” which h...

We finally got a break and some nice seeing from November 7th to the 9th.  I got a shot of Uranus on the 2nd night which I'll post later...

I'm finally gaining some rhythm with the new scope and weather.   I hope to be ready for lost sleep and some good seeing.  SOMEDAY! Clic...

BE SURE TO CLICK EACH PHOTO FOR HIGH-RES views!!! Two nights of decent to above average seeing and a nice double transit weekend before la...

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...