LUWD #0061 On the Trail of a Comet
Amateur astronomers from around the world working around the clock to confirm a comet. It doesn’t get better than that. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Amateur astronomers from around the world working around the clock to confirm a comet. It doesn’t get better than that. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
How can you determine Universal Time? One way is to call Greenwich and ask them what time it is there. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Then some smart-aleck says: “I thought Tranquility base was a Hollywood soundstage” – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Canis Minor, is a famous old-timer. It is trying, to stay up with Orion. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5rnul_2pk&t=271s All they need to do is meow. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Time spent looking at the moon is never wasted time. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
But that 2080 Great Conjunction will be in 60 years, and I’ll talk more about it then, in Podcast 3174. Yea, right. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
This is brought to you by the motions of the planets. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Unless we have a conjunction malfunction, this event could be the sky’s goodbye to 2020 don machholzContinue Reading
Maybe they should have called it Herschel. 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]
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.
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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