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Looking Up with Don

18 Episodes

17 minutes | 2 days 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 | 9 days 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 | 17 days 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 | 22 days 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
15 minutes | a month ago
LUWD #0051 The Bizarre Garnet Star
But that 2080 Great Conjunction will be in 60 years, and I’ll talk more about it then, in Podcast 3174. Yea, right.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-51-Map-1-1Download Podcast-51-Map-2-1Download Podcast-51-Map-3-Garnet-Star-1Download
19 minutes | a month ago
LUWD #0050 Compressed in the Southwest
This is brought to you by the motions of the planets.– DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-50-Map-1Download Podcast-50-Map-2Download Podcast-50-Map-3Download
19 minutes | a month ago
LUWD #0049 The Twins Put on a Show
Unless we have a conjunction malfunction, this event could be the sky’s goodbye to 2020don machholz Podcast-49-Map-1Download Podcast-49-Map-2Download Podcast-49-Map-3Download
19 minutes | 2 months ago
LUWD #0048 Plan It, Viewing the Seventh Planet
Maybe they should have called it Herschel.DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-48-Map-1Download Podcast-48-Map-2Download Podcast-48-Map-3Download Podcast-48-Comet-PositionsDownload
17 minutes | 2 months ago
LUWD #0047 A Gray Moon is Coming Soon
Does that moon look funny to you, or is it just me?DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-47-Map-1Download Podcast-47-Map-2Download Podcast-47-Delta-LyraeDownload
27 minutes | 2 months ago
LUWD #0046 “A Decade of Comets” Conclusion
That is a lot of time to find a comet, but then there is a lot of sky to cover!DON MACHHOLZ Podcast-46-A-Decade-of-Comets-Part-6Download Podcast-46-Map-1Download Podcast-46-Map-2Download
25 minutes | 6 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 | 6 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 | 7 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 | 7 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 | 7 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 | 7 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 | 8 months ago
LUWD #0022 The Brightness Behavior of Comets
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29 minutes | 8 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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