Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I mistakenly had the cooling on the ccd shut off and forgot to turn it back on, as such I didn't have any matching darks to kill the hot...

M9 in my 14" f/4.5 (1600mm FL) Today's image is one I had shot before and was potentially one of my earliest Deep Sky images ...

Needed for the Messier list that is in the final throws, here's M107, a loose globular cluster shot in lum only at varying exposures bec...

1st my weak previous attempt... over 2hours with a smaller scope and a DSLR doesn't hold a candle to the power of Hydrogen Alpha an...

Only a day  and four hours after the full moon made a near miss of occultation for me in NC, I got a low quality shot of Pluto.  Occultation...

I had a nice night last night and after some learning curves on the new equipment I did a trial of some LRGB imaging on M20.  It's too s...

I had intended to setup for my 1st  +Virtual Star Party  in over a month or two, but the weather had other designs.  I did manage to solve 2...