Looking Up with Don podcast

Looking Up with Don

Don Machholz

Explore the universe with Don Machholz, the world’s leading visual discoverer of comets. Featuring astronomy education and detailed, first-hand accounts of his comet discoveries, Looking Up with Don was recorded weekly until his death on August 9, 2022, and remains available worldwide, with listeners of all experience levels continuing to journey through the solar system and beyond.

136 Episodes

LUWD #136 Saturn at Opposition
8/8/2022
24:55
"Look for the Seeliger effect, when the rings brighten for a few days."Don Machholz
LUWD #135 A 1988 Comet Discovery
8/2/2022
23:53
"We had quite a few people there to see it."Don Machholz
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LUWD #134 Two Summer Meteor Showers
7/27/2022
9:06
"So these next couple of weeks may be your best chance to see them."Don Machholz
LUWD #133 Your July Observing List
7/18/2022
18:56
"Start with the bright stars."Don Machholz
LUWD #132 Summertime Views
7/12/2022
18:12
"The Summer Milky Way is now visible and with the warmer nights it is easy to stay out past midnight."Don Machholz
LUWD #131 The Story About a 1994 Comet Discovery
7/4/2022
21:24
"At 2:47 AM I picked up a fuzzy object, about magnitude 10."Don Machholz
LUWD #130 Image the Moon This Week
6/29/2022
18:08
"This would be a good week to image the moon each night through a small telescope."Don Machholz
LUWD #129 M4 and M80
6/22/2022
30:11
"Two globular clusters in Scorpius"Don Machholz
LUWD #128 So Many Planets, So Little Time
6/13/2022
12:54
"Quite often, when I'm the smartest person in the room, I'm by myself."Don Machholz
LUWD #127 Not Even An Inkling of Twinkling
6/7/2022
15:43
"The stars twinkle, the planets do not."Don Machholz

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