LUWD #0055 Be A Copernicus Crater Investigator
Time spent looking at the moon is never wasted time. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Time spent looking at the moon is never wasted time. – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
The locator is the terminator. Now look on the dark side of this borderline to see the earthshine, which is reflected sunshine, why does this rhyme? – DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
Cell phone lunar photography and Messier Marathon Search Sequence.Continue 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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