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Loma Prieta

Donald Machholz

LUWD #0017 – Comet ATLAS, Comet SWAN, Arcturus, Loma Prieta, Moon in my mirror

2020-04-28
By: Donald Machholz
On: April 28, 2020

Go out tonight to see Arcturus, Not as bright or blue as Sirius, It’s in Boötes you see, Above his left knee, A sight to behold for the curious DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading

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LUWD #0016 – Comet ATLAS, Mizar, Alcor, Youngest Moon, and Loma Prieta

2020-04-21
By: Donald Machholz
On: April 21, 2020

Unpredictable, inexplicable, once busted up, now busting out, gas and dust tail, small scale detail, written off as dead Apparently it was misread See Comet ATLAS, it is a splendid actress What will it do next week, take a sneak peek Will it be bright or bleak DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading

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LUWD #0015 – Comet ATLAS, Lyrids, and Loma Prieta

2020-04-14
By: Donald Machholz
On: April 14, 2020

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Strangest Comet Ever Found!

Comet 96P/Machholz "Strangest comet ever found," Bob Berman @Slooh @willgater Next perihelion: October 27, 2017 pic.twitter.com/UmkSYdQOQw

— Donald Machholz (@cometmachholz) August 1, 2017

Astronomy

#astronomy #CometLeonard #Machholz #mars #moon #podcast #Venus A Decade of Comets asteroids astronomer astronomy astronomy podcast Atlas Betelgeuse binocular Cassiopeia challenge comet Comet ATLAS Comet NEOWISE comets Comet SWAN discoverer discovery Donald Machholz Don Machholz Loma Prieta Lunar Eclipse Machholz Mars Mercury Messier Marathon naked-eye Neptune podcast science Search Sequence space Square of Pegasus Star Parties telescope The Pleiades Uranus Venus visual comet hunting

I Believe in Comets

Believing is what keeps this visual comet discoverer going. Don talks via Skype to Michigan astronomy enthusiasts at the Headlands International Dark Sky Park. Thanks @headlandsstars pic.twitter.com/oaAJ9mVOaL

— Donald Machholz (@cometmachholz) July 29, 2017

Comet Hunters Astronomers Explorers

Don Machholz
Don Machholz, Rodney Austin, and Doug Berger in New Zealand for Halley’s Comet, April 1986
Don Machholz and Jean Mueller
IAU Comet Confirmation
David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale
Dave Seargent, Don Machholz, Patrick Stonehouse, Keith Tritton, Alan Hale, Doug Biesecker, George Alcock, Bill Liller, Michael Jäger, Kesao Takamizawa and Kazimieras Cernis
Media Comet Machholz Circa 2005
Don Machholz Circa 1985
Dr Brian Marsden with Don Machholz at the location from where I found my second comet in 1985 Circa 1991
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Don Machholz Circa 2012
Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983
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Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020
Jill Tarter SETI and Don Machholz Circa 2010
Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015

Homemade 29×130 Binoculars

The homemade binoculars I used to discover #96p, 2 deg S of M31. The song, “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins was playing on the radio.

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Messier Marathon Search Sequence

LUWD #0008 – Messier Marathon Search Sequence

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