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LUWD #0067 Where Did Orion Go?

2021-04-13
By: Donald Machholz
On: April 13, 2021

We often think of space as a vacuum, well it isn’t. We’re here, aren’t we? – Don MachholzListen Now

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

2020-05-04
By: Donald Machholz
On: May 4, 2020

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, whatListen Now

Comet Hunters Astronomers Explorers

Don Machholz, Rodney Austin, and Doug Berger in New Zealand for Halley’s Comet, April 1986
IAU Comet Confirmation
Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015
Media Comet Machholz Circa 2005
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
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Don Machholz and Jean Mueller
Talk at East Valley Astronomy Club – Arizona Circa 2019
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Testing StarChair 3000
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Don Machholz Circa 1985
David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale
Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983
Homemade 5″ binoculars, weighing about 150 lbs and 10-inch reflector on an English Yoke mount
Astronomy Conference Badges from the 1970’s and 1980’s
Dr Brian Marsden with Don Machholz at the location from where I found my second comet in 1985 Circa 1991
Astronomy Meme 2019
My Parents, Doris Machholz and Donald Machholz, Sr. Circa 2014
Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020

Stargazer Arizona Observatory

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