Mike Phillips
@maphilli14.bsky.social
Amateur Astronomer, Photographer, Proud husband, Dad to 4, telescope builder, CCIE holder
https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home
https://astromikephillips.wixsite.com/home
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Pull the fire alarm.
Pull the fire alarm!
PULL THE FIRE ALARM!!!
Pull the fire alarm!
PULL THE FIRE ALARM!!!
August 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Pull the fire alarm.
Pull the fire alarm!
PULL THE FIRE ALARM!!!
Pull the fire alarm!
PULL THE FIRE ALARM!!!
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August 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Cleaning day in my house for the keen eyed that's a 4-in achro refractor, 6-in mak newt, 8-in sct and 14 in newt with 3.5 in secondary . I feel like missing something
August 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Cleaning day in my house for the keen eyed that's a 4-in achro refractor, 6-in mak newt, 8-in sct and 14 in newt with 3.5 in secondary . I feel like missing something
I'm wrestling AI and thinking about how everyone becomes dumber the more you crutch on google searches and ChatGPT, but I argue that if you SHOULD use that newly freed brain power to learn and do more! Only when you don't push yourself will it become true.
June 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm wrestling AI and thinking about how everyone becomes dumber the more you crutch on google searches and ChatGPT, but I argue that if you SHOULD use that newly freed brain power to learn and do more! Only when you don't push yourself will it become true.
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If you voted for Allison Riggs in the 2024 NC election check here to see if your ballot is being challenged. If so, then you have 15 business days from whenever they mail the notices to cure your ballot, but best to check now & cure yours as soon as possible, even if this ruling might get overturned
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to
early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted.
...
thegriffinlist.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If you voted for Allison Riggs in the 2024 NC election check here to see if your ballot is being challenged. If so, then you have 15 business days from whenever they mail the notices to cure your ballot, but best to check now & cure yours as soon as possible, even if this ruling might get overturned
Mothballing up my scope for spring in NC is always fun. Keeping it pollen free, means catchup time for processing but also I miss using my telescope. I just can't this year! LOOK!
March 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mothballing up my scope for spring in NC is always fun. Keeping it pollen free, means catchup time for processing but also I miss using my telescope. I just can't this year! LOOK!
@philplait.bsky.social you got me to follow you from Insta to here with the words, "enshittification" 😛🧑🍳😽 CHEF'S KISS!
January 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@philplait.bsky.social you got me to follow you from Insta to here with the words, "enshittification" 😛🧑🍳😽 CHEF'S KISS!
Single raw of last night's moon and Mars occultation
January 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Single raw of last night's moon and Mars occultation
I got it but it's stuck on a non-internet connected digital SLR. Wish me luck
January 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I got it but it's stuck on a non-internet connected digital SLR. Wish me luck
Mars and Jupiter from my homemade 14" newt
January 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mars and Jupiter from my homemade 14" newt
One more reason I love working from home! My 7th grader is a pretty fluent clarinetist and knows music so well through his piano that he just played the Lord of the Rings theme song, which he has no sheet music for then went back to his practice routine! WE HAVEN'T WATCHED in years!!!!
January 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One more reason I love working from home! My 7th grader is a pretty fluent clarinetist and knows music so well through his piano that he just played the Lord of the Rings theme song, which he has no sheet music for then went back to his practice routine! WE HAVEN'T WATCHED in years!!!!
My 2024 Best of our Solar System
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
January 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
My 2024 Best of our Solar System
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
Ganymede transiting in front of Jupiter
Not my best work, I can do better!
* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian
* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")
* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL
* Camera: FLIR Blackfly BFS-U3-32S4M-C (monochrome, USB3.0)
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Not my best work, I can do better!
* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian
* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")
* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL
* Camera: FLIR Blackfly BFS-U3-32S4M-C (monochrome, USB3.0)
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December 27, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Ganymede transiting in front of Jupiter
Not my best work, I can do better!
* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian
* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")
* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL
* Camera: FLIR Blackfly BFS-U3-32S4M-C (monochrome, USB3.0)
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Not my best work, I can do better!
* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian
* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")
* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL
* Camera: FLIR Blackfly BFS-U3-32S4M-C (monochrome, USB3.0)
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Just a quick preview of some Mars photos made into an animation that I took last night
December 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Just a quick preview of some Mars photos made into an animation that I took last night
Saturn in some decent seeing
November 29, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Saturn in some decent seeing
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 PM
🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
I didn't want to ride a political agenda coming here, but we all know why we are here!
November 25, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I didn't want to ride a political agenda coming here, but we all know why we are here!
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Instead, I invite you to follow and support people who create original content, which is much higher quality and more diverse than what you see on scraper accounts.
@andrealuck.bsky.social made this starter pack of talented people processing space imagery. 🔭 (5/6)
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
@andrealuck.bsky.social made this starter pack of talented people processing space imagery. 🔭 (5/6)
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Instead, I invite you to follow and support people who create original content, which is much higher quality and more diverse than what you see on scraper accounts.
@andrealuck.bsky.social made this starter pack of talented people processing space imagery. 🔭 (5/6)
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
@andrealuck.bsky.social made this starter pack of talented people processing space imagery. 🔭 (5/6)
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
My favorite of the recent comet that I photographed from Raleigh Mac's Lake Johnson on tripod and DSLR #astronomy
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM
My favorite of the recent comet that I photographed from Raleigh Mac's Lake Johnson on tripod and DSLR #astronomy
I wanted to keep sharing my astronomy passion with my new friends, here's a recent Saturn photo from my 14" f/4.5 Newtonian 🪐🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I wanted to keep sharing my astronomy passion with my new friends, here's a recent Saturn photo from my 14" f/4.5 Newtonian 🪐🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography
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Crescent Earth seen from the moon. Captured by Orion
November 20, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Crescent Earth seen from the moon. Captured by Orion