Looking Up with Don
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Experience the world of astronomy with #1 in the world for visual comet discoveries, Don Machholz. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, journey with Don Machholz into the solar system and beyond every Wednesday.
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Episodes
LUWD #136 Saturn at Opposition
August 08, 2022 21:17 - 24 minutes - 27.1 MB"Look for the Seeliger effect, when the rings brighten for a few days." Don Machholz
LUWD #135 A 1988 Comet Discovery
August 02, 2022 03:55 - 23 minutes - 30.5 MB"We had quite a few people there to see it." Don Machholz
LUWD #134 Two Summer Meteor Showers
July 27, 2022 00:37 - 9 minutes - 12.1 MB"So these next couple of weeks may be your best chance to see them." Don Machholz
LUWD #133 Your July Observing List
July 18, 2022 23:55 - 18 minutes - 23.1 MB"Start with the bright stars." Don Machholz
LUWD #132 Summertime Views
July 12, 2022 01:20 - 18 minutes - 22.6 MB"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
July 04, 2022 19:18 - 21 minutes - 39.2 MB"At 2:47 AM I picked up a fuzzy object, about magnitude 10." Don Machholz
LUWD #130 Image the Moon This Week
June 29, 2022 01:03 - 18 minutes - 33.2 MB"This would be a good week to image the moon each night through a small telescope." Don Machholz
LUWD #129 M4 and M80
June 22, 2022 03:52 - 30 minutes - 55.3 MB"Two globular clusters in Scorpius" Don Machholz
LUWD #128 So Many Planets, So Little Time
June 13, 2022 23:14 - 12 minutes - 23.6 MB"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
June 07, 2022 01:46 - 15 minutes - 28.8 MB"The stars twinkle, the planets do not." Don Machholz
LUWD #126 The Arietids Meteor Shower
June 01, 2022 01:46 - 11 minutes - 20.9 MB"We have a meteor shower coming up this week that almost no one knows about, but it is one of the most active of the year.” Don Machholz
LUWD #125 Possibly a Great Meteor Shower?
May 24, 2022 05:39 - 39 minutes - 72.7 MB"It is a matter of watching and waiting." Don Machholz
LUWD #124 The Virgo Galaxies
May 17, 2022 18:05 - 15 minutes - 28.1 MB"These were cataloged by Charles Messier in 1781." Don Machholz
LUWD #123 A Total Lunar Eclipse
May 10, 2022 04:51 - 26 minutes - 48.5 MBWhen the moon is in the umbra, it is hidden from the sundra." Don Machholz
LUWD 122 How to See Fainter Objects
May 03, 2022 04:45 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MB"Eyes, skies, and telescope." Don Machholz
LUWD #122 How to See Fainter Objects
May 03, 2022 04:45 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MB"Eyes, skies, and telescope." Don Machholz
LUWD #121 The Moon, Mercury, M45, and Maybe a Comet
April 26, 2022 17:44 - 22 minutes - 42.1 MB"This week the hotspot is the evening sky." Don Machholz
LUWD #120 A Line-up of Planets
April 21, 2022 16:13 - 15 minutes - 28.9 MB"Set the alarm and bring the camera." Don Machholz
LUWD #119 Amateur and Professional Astronomers
April 11, 2022 23:17 - 22 minutes - 40.7 MB"I have been an amateur astronomer since I was about 8 years old and took an interest in astronomy." Don Machholz
LUWD #118 The Straight Wall
April 05, 2022 02:11 - 20 minutes - 38.2 MB"It is one of the most interesting features on the moon." -Don Machholz
LUWD #117 Mars and Saturn in the Morning Sky
March 29, 2022 16:34 - 13 minutes - 25.6 MB"And the colors should differ, especially when seen through binoculars or a telescope." -Don Machholz
LUWD #116 A Party of Planets
March 21, 2022 17:57 - 29 minutes - 53.3 MB"The crescent moon makes a nice pattern with Venus, Mars, and Saturn on Monday morning, March 28" -Don Machholz
LUWD #115 A Moonlit Messier Marathon
March 15, 2022 05:23 - 33 minutes - 60.5 MB"You won't find any of this stuff published anywhere." -Don Machholz
LUWD #114 A Close Look at the Moon
March 08, 2022 00:11 - 17 minutes - 32.2 MB"Yes, they have seen the moon before, but now they can see the craters." -Don Machholz
LUWD #113 The Winter Milky Way
March 01, 2022 00:10 - 20 minutes - 37.5 MB"It is rich, very rich, with stars and star clusters." -Don Machholz
LUWD 112 Galaxy NGC 891
February 23, 2022 03:01 - 25 minutes - 47.4 MB"May our galaxy wrap its arms around you. I bet no one had ever said that to you before. In fact, it is already doing that." -Don Machholz
LUWD #112 Galaxy NGC 891
February 23, 2022 03:01 - 25 minutes - 47.4 MB"May our galaxy wrap its arms around you. I bet no one had ever said that to you before. In fact, it is already doing that." -Don Machholz
LUWD 111 Accidental Visual Comet Discoveries
February 15, 2022 03:28 - 30 minutes - 56.6 MB“This was a sweet spot for such discoveries: after many visual comet hunters left the field, and before the government-funded sky surveys took over.” -Don Machholz
LUWD #111 Accidental Visual Comet Discoveries
February 15, 2022 03:28 - 30 minutes - 56.6 MB“This was a sweet spot for such discoveries: after many visual comet hunters left the field, and before the government-funded sky surveys took over.” -Don Machholz
LUWD #110 M1, M57, and Comets
February 08, 2022 05:02 - 20 minutes - 36.7 MB"In Messier's case it was known comets leading to new Messier Objects. Centuries later it was known Messier Objects leading to new comets." -Don Machholz
LUWD #109 Massive Marathon
February 02, 2022 01:34 - 25 minutes - 45.9 MB"This is how the Massive Marathon was invented." -Don Machholz
LUWD #108 The Pleiades
January 25, 2022 22:35 - 21 minutes - 39.6 MB"I believe that moonlight is the real reason why Charles Messier missed M65 and M66." -Don Machholz
LUWD #107 Starting Your Day at 2 AM
January 17, 2022 22:57 - 26 minutes - 48.1 MB"I would rather be sweeping than sleeping". -Don Machholz
LUWD #106 Comets in 2022
January 11, 2022 03:22 - 16 minutes - 30.6 MB"Is it a bird, is it a plane? No kitty, that is the moon!" -Don Machholz
LUWD #105 Mercury in the Evening
January 04, 2022 03:17 - 20 minutes - 37.4 MB"This is a good week to look at the moon." Don Machholz
LUWD #104 The Year’s First Meteor Shower
December 28, 2021 20:32 - 13 minutes - 25.6 MB"In 1922 the IAU named 88 constellations; this must have been number 89." -Don Machholz
LUWD #103 A Family of Comets
December 21, 2021 21:10 - 18 minutes - 34.6 MB"The winter constellations are here, ready for another season of viewing." Don Machholz
LUWD #102 Comet Leonard in the Evening Sky
December 14, 2021 21:19 - 14 minutes - 26.6 MB"This could produce a meteor shower on Venus." Don Machholz
LUWD #101 A Comet in the Twilight Zone
December 07, 2021 23:14 - 27 minutes - 51 MB“When Albert Einstein was a boy, if he ever did anything stupidly, did people say to him: ‘hey, way to go, Einstein!’?” -Don Machholz
LUWD #100 Comet Leonard Meets a Star Cluster
November 30, 2021 22:24 - 17 minutes - 32.7 MB"Probably more penguins than people will see this eclipse. Those solar eclipse glasses will keep slipping off their ears." Don Machholz
LUWD #0099 Ceres: Hiding in the Hyades
November 22, 2021 22:50 - 13 minutes - 25 MB"The Antarcitia solar eclipse is on December 4. If you intend to see it, you should be heading out the door about now." Don Machholz
LUWD #0098 Open Star Cluster M52
November 16, 2021 01:23 - 15 minutes - 28.1 MB"Well, I'm an astronomer, and to me a beautiful sunset sky has no clouds at all." Don Machholz
LUWD #0097 Lunar Eclipse
November 09, 2021 00:01 - 17 minutes - 31.8 MB"The moon could fit inside the earth's shadow if it wanted to." Don Machholz
LUWD #0096 Gegenschein
November 02, 2021 01:33 - 15 minutes - 28.2 MB"So now is a suitable time to see the gegenschein." Don Machholz
LUWD #0095 See Some Comets This Week
October 25, 2021 22:02 - 15 minutes - 28.1 MB"Comets are scattered around the sky." Don Machholz
LUWD #0094 A Rhyming Messier Marathon Talk
October 19, 2021 02:46 - 23 minutes - 42.7 MB"Charles Messier lived some two hundred years ago in France, from where he searched for comets, whenever he got the chance" Don Machholz
LUWD #0093 Observe the Moon Night
October 12, 2021 02:05 - 23 minutes - 42.5 MB“Why stop with our moon? Show them Jupiter and Saturn and their moons too. A multi-moon evening.” Don Machholz
LUWD #0092 Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
October 05, 2021 03:30 - 15 minutes - 28.9 MB“We’ll know in two weeks, when communication with Mars resumes, if Martians have visited our rovers.” Don Machholz
LUWD #0091 Distant Moons
September 28, 2021 02:28 - 16 minutes - 31.1 MB“If you have a group of observers with you, take bets. The winner gets to choose which will be the next object to observe.” Don Machholz
LUWD #0090 Astro Imaging
September 21, 2021 00:26 - 18 minutes - 34.8 MBI'm a bit behind in reading my astronomy magazines. I just read that there will be a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. Did I miss it? Don Machholz