Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

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...

Main site This was night 4 of 4 and the current longest consecutive stretch of nights in a row.  I set out to capture Io emerging from tran...

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...

Best we've had in sometime! Even the kids are getting out of bed, Jake my 6YO helped with this one and found 3 of the moons, two of whic...

Jupiter with 2x moon events & GRS 20090715 This is some good work but not nearly as exciting as discovering an impact hole on Jupiter....