Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

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

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...

2nd season with Akule

Only my second of the season if you can believe.  I am still waiting on good or even above average seeing.  It was extra special to share th...

I've been out a bit trying to improve my collimation skills and hoping to ride the seeing forecast.  I've got collimation somewhat ...

Chomping at the bit for good seeing I braved a couple nights of average seeing with no clouds or rain to grab this decent shot. I installed ...

After some long streaks of poor Astronomy weather but good people weather (aka warm and breezy) we finally got a break here in NC.  I p...

1st Saturn season for me with the Flea3 and with Akule ( http://maphilli14.webs.com/akule.htm )

this is a monochrome capture from my DMK21AF04 Camera in the Red channel under good seeing on an unknown day in spring of 2009

Object: Saturn Planet Origin: ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0 Observer Michael A. Phillips Mr. Site Home Begin 2009-06-08...

Ful RES: And animation! And facebox labels! Capture notes: Seeing makes the rings quiver and nowhere as good as a few ni...

Capture notes: The forecast called for ~50% cloudiness at the beginning of the evening and I wasn't really prepared to go out as my com...