LUWD #100 Comet Leonard Meets a Star Cluster
“Probably more penguins than people will see this eclipse. Those solar eclipse glasses will keep slipping off their ears.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0099 Ceres: Hiding in the Hyades
“The Antarcitia solar eclipse is on December 4. If you intend to see it, you should be heading out the door about now.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0098 Open Star Cluster M52
“Well, I’m an astronomer, and to me a beautiful sunset sky has no clouds at all.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0097 Lunar Eclipse
“The moon could fit inside the earth’s shadow if it wanted to.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0096 Gegenschein
“So now is a suitable time to see the gegenschein.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0095 See Some Comets This Week
“Comets are scattered around the sky.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0094 A Rhyming Messier Marathon Talk
“Charles Messier lived some two hundred years ago in France, from where he searched for comets, whenever he got the chance” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0093 Observe the Moon Night
“Why stop with our moon? Show them Jupiter and Saturn and their moons too. A multi-moon evening.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0092 Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
“We’ll know in two weeks, when communication with Mars resumes, if Martians have visited our rovers.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
LUWD #0091 Distant Moons
“If you have a group of observers with you, take bets. The winner gets to choose which will be the next object to observe.” Don MachholzContinue Reading
