LUWD #0053 How Many Stars Can You Pull Out of This Square?

By: Donald Machholz

On: January 4, 2021

Tagged: "Observers Notebook", M31, M77, Square of Pegasus

You can overcome some deficiencies with patient observing. And practice. The more you look, the more you see.

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is an American amateur astronomer, who is number one in the world for visual comet discoveries. Credited with the discovery of 12 comets, that include the periodic comets 96P/Machholz, 141P/Machholz, the non-periodic C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) that were visible with binoculars in the northern sky in 2004 and 2005, C/2010 F4 (Machholz), and most recently C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto) ^[1]^[2] In 1985, comet Machholz 1985-e, was discovered using a homemade cardboard telescope with a wide aperture, 10 inches across, that gave it a broader field of view than most commercial telescopes.^[3] Amateur astronomer Machholz utilizes a variety of methods in his comet discoveries, in 1986 using 29×130 binoculars he discovered 96P/Machholz.^[4]

Machholz is considered to be one of the inventors of the Messier marathon, which is a race to observe all the Messier objects in a single night.

LUWD #0053 How Many Stars Can You Pull Out of This Square?

Stargazer Arizona Observatory

Donald Edward Machholz

Homemade 29×130 Binoculars