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...

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

Full Size Labels Object: Jupiter Planet Origin: ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0 Observer Michael A. Philli...

Observation logs Object: Jupiter Planet Origin: ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0 Observer Michael A. Philli...