Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

Abell 262 is a cluster of galaxies that are part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster and approximately 205-250 million light years distant....

And my automated processing is coming along nicely.  Here's a preview of the v10 routine using python and sikuli to batch the captur...

I'm pretty happy with this one and for once the weather cooperated a bit!  In between some violent, flooding t-stroms I caught a whole n...

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...