Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

 Sitting around for 6 months in my 'Latest' workflow folder I found this in some decent seeing.  I was setup in a spot to dodge the ...

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...

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

No, there's no part one per se.  Last January Kevin Quin, a very accomplished astrophotographer had some issues with his color filter wh...

I can sit and complain about clouds being so bad this year all I want, but the fact of the matter is 2014 was a great year and I'm bless...

As the North Carolina weather moves from dry, large temp swings winter to the warm, moist and hazy spring I found a spell of settled weather...

WinJUPOS Image measurement basics http://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2014/02/winjupos-image-measurement-tutorial.html Sit back and cl...

My 2nd of the season, but off to a great start!

A total observation count of 28.  Of which, some were only live streamed on Google+ or not processed because of just terrible seeing. Re...

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...