Michael A. Phillips' Astro Blog

I was out the night before as well, for the 1st time in over 2 months!  Most nights the clouds are doing this -  https://i.imgur.com/O6c7LPQ...

I suffer and greatly from clouds!   In my pursuit to automate the entire deep sky routine, so I can stay warm indoors I sacr...

I had some clear skies and decided to take a stab at some DSO's, more on those later.  As I settled in with the kids I found a curious c...

It was cold but worthwhile!  I especially wanted to pay attention to the stars at totality and the color.  My camera does have the IR Fil...

This year I upgraded from a ZWO ASI174MM to a ASI290MM, mostly so that I could build a DIY allsky camera.  I'm still working on that and...

In the midst of upgrading my blog and webpages - check here for the full and latest tutorials indices | http://maphilli14.webs.com/software-...

All in all a pretty great year for the number and quality of planet photos I imaged.  Here in the northern hemisphere the prime planets of M...