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Looking Up with Don

18 Episodes

37 minutes | a day ago
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 MACHHOLZ Podcast-61-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-61-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-61-Map-3-VestaDownload
18 minutes | 8 days ago
LUWD #0060 Universal Time is for Everyone
How can you determine Universal Time? One way is to call Greenwich and ask them what time it is there.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-60-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-60-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload
22 minutes | 15 days ago
LUWD #0059 Tranquility Base Here
Then some smart-aleck says: “I thought Tranquility base was a Hollywood soundstage”– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-59-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-59-Map-2-Mornng-SkyDownload Podcast-59-Map-3-Tranquility-BaseDownload
16 minutes | 22 days ago
LUWD #0058 This Week’s Headliner is Canis Minor
Canis Minor, is a famous old-timer. It is trying, to stay up with Orion. – DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-58-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-58-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-58-Map-3-CometDownload Podcast-58-Map-4-M93Download
25 minutes | a month ago
LUWD #0057 The Orion Nebula
You could start the February Messier Marathon three hours after twilight and not miss a thing.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-57-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-57-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-57-Map-3-M42-M43-M78Download Podcast-57-Dons-Comet-Hunting-HoursDownload
22 minutes | a month ago
LUWD #0056 The Winter Milky Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5rnul_2pk&t=271s All they need to do is meow.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-56-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-56-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-56-Map-3-M79Download Podcast-56-Map-4-141P-MachholzDownload Podcast-56-Map-5-C2021-A2-NEOWISEDownload Podcast-56-Comet-PositionsDownload
17 minutes | a month ago
LUWD #0055 Be A Copernicus Crater Investigator
Time spent looking at the moon is never wasted time.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-55-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-55-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-55-Map-3-MoonDownload
18 minutes | 2 months ago
LUWD #0054 Earthshine
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 MACHHOLZ Podcast-54-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-54-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-54-Map-3-Mars-and-UranusDownload Podcast-54-Map-4-Two-Evening-CometsDownload
23 minutes | 2 months ago
LUWD #0053 How Many Stars Can You Pull Out of This Square?
You can overcome some deficiencies with patient observing. And practice. The more you look, the more you see. Podcast-53-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-53-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-53-Map-3-M31-and-the-Square-of-PegasusDownload Podcast-53-Map-4-M77Download Podcast-53-Map-5-Evening-CometDownload Podcast-53-Number-of-Stars-in-the-Square-of-PegasusDownload
17 minutes | 2 months ago
LUWD #0052 Midnight With Sirius
2021 is on your doorstep, asking you to come out and play.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-52-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-52-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload Podcast-52-Map-3-CometsDownload Podcast-52-Map-4-BetelgeuseDownload Podcast-52-Map-5-M74Download
25 minutes | 7 months ago
LUWD #0029 Comet NEOWISE, meteor showers, M6, M7, M8 and M20
Comet NEOWISE left behind,A trail of hope and joy combined.A celestial gift to humankind, To help us through our daily grind.DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-29-Map-1Download Podcast-29-Map-2Download Podcast-29-Map-3Download Hits: 174
28 minutes | 8 months ago
LUWD #0028 Comet NEOWISE, Saturn, Sagittarius, and observatories
It’s not too late to realize,the comet to see is NEOWISEDON MACHHOLZ Podcast-28-Map-1Download Podcast-28-Map-2Download Podcast-28-Map-3Download Podcast-28-My-Colfax-ObservatoryDownload Hits: 164
26 minutes | 8 months ago
LUWD #0027 Astronomical Observatories, Comet NEOWISE, Scorpius, M4
“Comet NEOWISE stuck its head out from behind the sun and smiled at us.”DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-27-Map-1Download Podcast-27-Map-2Download Podcast-27-Map-3Download Podcast-27-Comet-PositionsDownload Hits: 201
22 minutes | 8 months ago
LUWD #0026 Lunar Eclipse, the traveling astronomer and Cygnus
A five-star rating for a seven-star cluster.DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-26-Map-1Download Podcast-26-Map-2Download Podcast-26-Map-3Download Hits: 121
29 minutes | 8 months ago
LUWD #0025 ALPO, SOHO, NEOWISE and Lemmon
Let’s hear it for the SOHO spacecraftAnd the amazing things it has photographed.With four thousand comets foundBy those on the groundWho scan images…DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-25-Map-1Download Podcast-25-Map-2Download Hits: 117
19 minutes | 8 months ago
LUWD #0024 Annular Solar Eclipse, Mercury’s tail, Placer Nature Center
It happens in 2020 on the 21st of JuneWhen the sun in the sky gets hidden by the moonThe moon’s so far away it can’t cover the sun totallySo, a ring of fire will be visible locallyThere will be no corona visible, at least not in the skyYou need a filter to see this or else you will burn your eyeThe Congo is where it is first seen by those without myopiaThen through South Sudan and into EthiopiaMid-morning it visits Yemen and slide by Oman’s capital cityFilter it and take a look I bet it’s mighty prettyPakistan sees the sun assume the shape of a ringThen onto northern India where the eclipse becomes “a thing”Tibet is next then China, sharing this afternoon viewSomething that everyone can look up toTaiwan gets to jump on then the eclipse sinks into the oceanA day of emotion, a moon in slow motion, proving Newton’s three laws of motionDON MACHHOLZ Podcast-24-Map-1Download Hits: 161
26 minutes | 9 months ago
LUWD #0022 The Brightness Behavior of Comets
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29 minutes | 9 months ago
LUWD #0021 – Comet SWAN
Look up to the north that’s PolarisSheltered in place its not carelessNeither setting nor risin’Stuck above the horizonWith no place to…DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-21-Big-BinocularsDownload Podcast-21-Map-1Download Hits: 135
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