Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

Pacman nebula - I didn't think this was enough data and was going to hit it up another night, but it slipped and well, here it...

I saw the Cloudy Nights ( http://www.cloudynights.com/ ) challenge the other month and was immediately struck by how cool this barred spiral...

This is my single most amount of DSLR data in a single session or night to date. 5min (300s) x 42 = 3.5 hours at ISO 1600 For those not yet ...

Retooled my Mars processing routine again and got good results in avg seeing.  I stacked in Iris per my v8 routine and before handing to Ast...

Best seeing of the season so far! I'm tooling around with things, but most notibly is color matching with PS. I got so tired of, mor...

I took 2min @ RGB every 15 min from 2300 to 0115 to make an animation of the rotation, but I think some of the frames are not very good whe...

4 nights in December, most of which had bad seeing.  2 of them, I started with the CGE aligned and the white, 6" Schmidt-Newt on top ...