Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I made a tutorial on how to remove the limb artifacts on your Mars images. You'll see in this video tools in Gimp like layers, opacity a...

I think this is my 1st post of Mars this apparation that I'm proud of! Only my 3rd of the season. Weather was avg to just above avg, I r...

Yes a two for! I was attempting to catch Eros, which  is a  Mars-crosser asteroid , and the first known to come within the orbit ...

From 20120125 at 0600UT Reprocessed using AutoStakkert2 Beta and for comparison, the Registax version

I did not get out as much this year as I did last, mostly due to bad weather all around. I missed Venus and my consolation is I can get the ...

After numerous submissions and only a single semifinals win, I finally won the finals. http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?...

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...