Comet NEOWISE

LUWD #0031 Eyepatches, Perseid Meteor Shower, Comet NEOWISE

By: Donald Machholz

On: August 4, 2020

An eyepatch makes you see less, So that you can see more DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading

LUWD #0030 Comet NEOWISE, Teaching A Continuing Education Course

By: Donald Machholz

On: July 27, 2020

LUWD #0028 Comet NEOWISE, Saturn, Sagittarius, and observatories

By: Donald Machholz

On: July 13, 2020

It’s not too late to realize, the comet to see is NEOWISE DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading

LUWD #0027 Astronomical Observatories, Comet NEOWISE, Scorpius, M4

By: Donald Machholz

On: July 6, 2020

“Comet NEOWISE stuck its head out from behind the sun and smiled at us.” DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading

LUWD #0026 Lunar Eclipse, the traveling astronomer and Cygnus

By: Donald Machholz

On: June 29, 2020

A five-star rating for a seven-star cluster. DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading

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]