Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

 Via the Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4449 - " NGC 4449 , also known as Caldwell 21 , is an irregular Magellanic...

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...

Fun one, I think I've seen a glimpse of he small dark lane that is the black eye, but this was a refreshing look...

Almost 4hours of time on this in almost a single night.  Grabbed a few strays on the 2nd night but spent more time on M63 the next night...

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Pacman nebula - I didn't think this was enough data and was going to hit it up another night, but it slipped and well, here it...

I saw the Cloudy Nights ( http://www.cloudynights.com/ ) challenge the other month and was immediately struck by how cool this barred spiral...

This is my single most amount of DSLR data in a single session or night to date. 5min (300s) x 42 = 3.5 hours at ISO 1600 For those not yet ...

Since the major upgrade to the 6" f/5 Schmidt-Newt OTA on the Celeston CGE with the right LPS-P2-FF filter, I've had lots of...

Observation logs Observations Object: M65 Galaxy in Leo Alias: NGC3623 RA: 11h 18m 56s Dec: 13° 05' 37" Size: 1....

Begin: 2009-02-04 um 20:08:01-05:00 End: 2009-02-04 um 23:59:00-05:00 Weather: S:? T: 3?/5 Clear, cold and WINDY! Equipment: Opti...

I keep pushing my mostly stock C8i SE. A few nights ago I actually managed to get decent tracking for over 3 hours. I was able to salvage ...