Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

http://digg.com/d1sGzU BTW, long tail is an economic strategy...

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...

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...

Not cool.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RpCYGxzD0

I don't get much more than 1 or 2 views of Mercury each year so I'm lumping them all in together in one album

Red filter on Castor in Gemini Good illustration of focus and collimation on the airy disk of a star. Set gain to full, leave gamma off / d...