LUWD #0082 Open Star Clusters: From the Blockbusters to the Lacklusters

By: Donald Machholz

On: July 26, 2021

Tagged: #astronomy, #Machholz, #Nishimura, #open clusters, #podcast

“So those are the three requirements for finding a comet: at the right place, at the right time and seeing faint enough to detect it.“
Don Machholz

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Talk at East Valley Astronomy Club – Arizona Circa 2019

David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale

Media Comet Machholz Circa 2005

Don Machholz Circa 1985

Don Machholz Circa 2012

Don Machholz and Jean Mueller

Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983

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

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

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

Don Machholz

Don Machholz

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

Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015

Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020

Don Machholz

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

IAU Comet Confirmation

Testing StarChair 3000

Don Machholz

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

Astronomy Meme 2019

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