Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

Taken over the span of 36 minutes on September 28th, 2014.  I was able to image; Titania (mag. 13.9), dimmest Miranda (mag. 16.5), Ariel (ma...

I'm rolling through the Messier Catalog.  It's 8 or so years in the works but I now have images of 109 of the 110 objects!  Only one...

I struggle with trees in my yard that obscure a large portion of my night sky. I setup my 14" telescope in one of the only areas that...

After about 6 weeks of rain and clouds we here in North Carolina caught a brief 3 day break of sun and STARS!!! Full res on AstroBin - htt...

In case you didn't catch the live show, this week we kicked off a new style Amateur Astronomer hangout called "Nights at the Round ...

Mars 2014 ANIMATION! Using 7 processed and derotated source images from 7 different nights as seen in the labeled WinJUPOS map ...

As Mars only comes around every other year I pursued the red planet fairly aggressively this time around.  I had a few nights that ended up ...