Lunar Eclipse

LUWD #0047 A Gray Moon is Coming Soon

By: Donald Machholz

On: November 24, 2020

Does that moon look funny to you, or is it just me? 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

LUWD #0022 The Brightness Behavior of Comets

By: Donald Machholz

On: June 3, 2020

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]

Machholz is considered to be one of the inventors of the Messier marathon, which is a race to observe all the Messier objects in a single night.

Lunar Eclipse

LUWD #0047 A Gray Moon is Coming Soon

LUWD #0026 Lunar Eclipse, the traveling astronomer and Cygnus

LUWD #0022 The Brightness Behavior of Comets

Stargazer Arizona Observatory

Donald Edward Machholz

Homemade 29×130 Binoculars