LUWD #0036 A Decade of Comets, William Bradfield, Dr. Brian Marsden, Neptune
William Bradfield of Australia get used to his name; he discovered 10 of the 33 comets covered in A Decade of Comets. DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
William Bradfield of Australia get used to his name; he discovered 10 of the 33 comets covered in A Decade of Comets. DON MACHHOLZContinue Reading
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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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