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Donald Machholz

LUWD #0024 Annular Solar Eclipse, Mercury’s tail, Placer Nature Center

2020-06-16
By: Donald Machholz
On: June 16, 2020

It happens in 2020 on the 21st of June When the sun in the sky gets hidden by the moon The moon’s so far awayListen Now

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LUWD #0023 The Greatest Globular Cluster in Hercules

2020-06-08
By: Donald Machholz
On: June 8, 2020

Look up this Hercules globular Visible in your binocular Known by many astronomer Frequented by the photographer That’s why it is so popular DON MACHHOLZListen Now

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LUWD #0022 The Brightness Behavior of Comets

2020-06-03
By: Donald Machholz
On: June 3, 2020

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LUWD #0021 – Comet SWAN

2020-05-26
By: Donald Machholz
On: May 26, 2020

Look up to the north that’s Polaris Sheltered in place its not careless Neither setting nor risin’ Stuck above the horizon With no place to…Listen Now

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LUWD #0020 – Comet SWAN, Comet ATLAS

2020-05-18
By: Donald Machholz
On: May 18, 2020

There once was a comet named ATLAS Whose magnitude curve showed flatness It fragmented and scattered At the time it most mattered And it… DONListen 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

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