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LUWD #111 Accidental Visual Comet Discoveries

2022-02-14
By: Donald Machholz
On: February 14, 2022

“This was a sweet spot for such discoveries: after many visual comet hunters left the field, and before the government-funded sky surveys took over.” -DonListen Now

Comet Hunters Astronomers Explorers

Don Machholz, Rodney Austin, and Doug Berger in New Zealand for Halley’s Comet, April 1986
Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015
Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983
Homemade 5″ binoculars, weighing about 150 lbs and 10-inch reflector on an English Yoke mount
Don Machholz and Jean Mueller
Dr Brian Marsden with Don Machholz at the location from where I found my second comet in 1985 Circa 1991
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
Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020
David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale
Don Machholz
Astronomy Conference Badges from the 1970’s and 1980’s
Don Machholz Circa 1985
Don Machholz Circa 2012
Don Machholz
Don Machholz
Testing StarChair 3000
Don Machholz
IAU Comet Confirmation
My Parents, Doris Machholz and Donald Machholz, Sr. Circa 2014
Astronomy Meme 2019
Talk at East Valley Astronomy Club – Arizona Circa 2019

Stargazer Arizona Observatory

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