LUWD #0018 – Comet SWAN, discovering and confirming comets and asteroids, being sleep-deprived

By: Donald Machholz

On: May 4, 2020

Tagged: asteroids, astronomy, Comet SWAN, comets, discovery, Machholz, podcast

Donald Machholz

Learn the constellation Corvus
It’s not enormous
It represents a crow
Seen better from down below
From Spring into the summer
Then it’s gone, what a bummer!
DON MACHHOLZ

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Dave Seargent, Don Machholz, Patrick Stonehouse, Keith Tritton, Alan Hale, Doug Biesecker, George Alcock, Bill Liller, Michael Jäger, Kesao Takamizawa and Kazimieras Cernis

Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015

Dr Brian Marsden with Don Machholz at the location from where I found my second comet in 1985 Circa 1991

Don Machholz Circa 2012

Don Machholz

Testing StarChair 3000

David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale

Don Machholz

Astronomy Meme 2019

Homemade 5″ binoculars, weighing about 150 lbs and 10-inch reflector on an English Yoke mount

Don Machholz and Jean Mueller

Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983

Astronomy Conference Badges from the 1970’s and 1980’s

Don Machholz, Rodney Austin, and Doug Berger in New Zealand for Halley’s Comet, April 1986

Don Machholz

Don Machholz Circa 1985

Don Machholz

Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020

Talk at East Valley Astronomy Club – Arizona Circa 2019

IAU Comet Confirmation

Media Comet Machholz Circa 2005

My Parents, Doris Machholz and Donald Machholz, Sr. Circa 2014

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