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**Looking Up with Don**

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.

Latest Episodes:

LUWD #0036 A Decade of Comets, William Bradfield, Dr. Brian Marsden, Neptune Sep 08, 2020

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William Bradfield of Australia get used to his name; he discovered 10 of the 33 comets covered in A Decade of Comets.

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0035 Visual Comet Discoveries, A Decade of Comets Sep 02, 2020

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I began to wonder: what am I missing?

Does everyone else know something that I don't?

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0034 Visual Comet Discovery, Dr. Edgar Everhart Aug 25, 2020

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This is the type of study that helped to direct comet hunters where to search.

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0033 Remote Telescope Rental, SLOOH, Delphinus, comets Aug 19, 2020

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This pod is a dolphin name Delphinus

Hiding in the Milky Way, due to its shyness

Near the star Altair, one of the brightest

Up in the sky where there is no virus

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0032 Astronomical League, comets, and an arrow in the sky Aug 12, 2020

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The constellation aim to know betta

Is the tiny arrow known as Sagitta

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0031 Eyepatches, Perseid Meteor Shower, Comet NEOWISE Aug 04, 2020

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An eyepatch makes you see less,

So that you can see more

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0030 Comet NEOWISE, Teaching A Continuing Education Course Jul 28, 2020

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LUWD #0029 Comet NEOWISE, meteor showers, M6, M7, M8 and M20 Jul 23, 2020

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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

LUWD #0028 Comet NEOWISE, Saturn, Sagittarius, and observatories Jul 14, 2020

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It's not too late to realize,

the comet to see is NEOWISE

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0027 Astronomical Observatories, Comet NEOWISE, Scorpius, M4 Jul 07, 2020

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"Comet NEOWISE stuck its head out from behind the sun and smiled at us."

DON MACHHOLZ

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