Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I honestly have not been afforded the time or clear skies to be choosy about when and how I shoot the night sky most of this year.  I had in...

If you didn't know it has been a terrible season for astronomy in the mid Atlantic USA.  I purchased a new CCD, but that had nothing to ...

Yet another object I've already shot.  Here is M102, a small, edge on galaxy.  This time I decided a side by side comparison as it was t...

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...