LUWD #111 Accidental Visual Comet Discoveries

By: Donald Machholz

On: February 14, 2022

Tagged: #astronomy, #M48, #M50, #Machholz, #podcast, #Rigel, #Sirus, #visualcometdiscovery

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“This was a sweet spot for such discoveries: after many visual comet hunters left the field, and before the government-funded sky surveys took over.”
-Don Machholz

Podcast-111-Map-1-Evening-Sky Download

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

Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015

Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983

Don Machholz and Jean Mueller

Don Machholz

Don Machholz

Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020

Talk at East Valley Astronomy Club – Arizona Circa 2019

Testing StarChair 3000

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

Media Comet Machholz Circa 2005

Astronomy Meme 2019

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

Don Machholz

Don Machholz Circa 2012

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

IAU Comet Confirmation

Don Machholz

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

David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale

Don Machholz Circa 1985

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

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