Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I had to make a correction to the original finding based on 3 nights (Sept 12th, 21st and 29th, 2009.  Here you'll see the positions of...

  I think I could have benefited greatly from more subs on this one.  I ended up getting all .fits instead of raws on the 1st night. ...

http://www.darkatmospheres.com/contest/2008/ I came in 2nd place in this contest and won a great observing chair: http://www.buyastrostuff.c...

I was very excited to get my CGE back from repair at Celestron and as luck would have I got a good 3 nights out of 4 of clear skies an...

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

I got burned by lying, hiding clouds a week ago and a week before that was poor seeing.  So it has been 3 weeks since my last good night o...