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Looking Up with Don — Astronomy
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.

Copyright: © Don Machholz

Latest Episodes:

LUWD #0026 Lunar Eclipse, the traveling astronomer and Cygnus Jun 30, 2020

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A five-star rating for a seven-star cluster.

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0025 ALPO, SOHO, NEOWISE and Lemmon Jun 23, 2020

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Let’s hear it for the SOHO spacecraft

And the amazing things it has photographed.

With four thousand comets found

By those on the ground

Who scan images...

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0024 Annular Solar Eclipse, Mercury’s tail, Placer Nature Center Jun 17, 2020

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It happens in 2020 on the 21st of June

When the sun in the sky gets hidden by the moon

The moon's so far away it can't cover the sun totally

So, a ring of fire will be visible locally

There will be no corona visible, at least not in the sky

You need a filter to see this or else you will burn your eye

The Congo is where it is first seen by those without myopia

Then through South Sudan and into Ethiopia

Mid-morning it visits Yemen and slide by Oman's capital city

Filter it and take a look I bet it's mighty pretty

Pakistan sees the sun assume the shape of a ring

Then onto northern India where the eclipse becomes "a thing"

Tibet is next then China, sharing this afternoon view

Something that everyone can look up to

Taiwan gets to jump on then the eclipse sinks into the ocean

A day of emotion, a moon in slow motion, proving Newton's three laws of motion

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0023 The Greatest Globular Cluster in Hercules Jun 09, 2020

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Look up this Hercules globular

Visible in your binocular

Known by many astronomer

Frequented by the photographer

That's why it is so popular

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0022 The Brightness Behavior of Comets Jun 03, 2020

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LUWD #0021 – Comet SWAN May 27, 2020

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Look up to the north that's Polaris

Sheltered in place its not careless

Neither setting nor risin'

Stuck above the horizon

With no place to...

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0020 – Comet SWAN, Comet ATLAS May 19, 2020

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There once was a comet named ATLAS

Whose magnitude curve showed flatness

It fragmented and scattered

At the time it most mattered

And it...

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0019 – Comet SWAN, Comet ATLAS, Right Ascension and Declination May 11, 2020

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It's right to learn Right Ascension

And declination requires your attention

They'll take you to the place

In shallow or deep space

With little to no apprehension

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0018 – Comet SWAN, discovering and confirming comets and asteroids, being sleep-deprived May 04, 2020

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Learn the constellation Corvus

It's not enormous

It represents a crow

Seen better from down below

From Spring into the summer

Then it's gone, what a bummer!

DON MACHHOLZ

LUWD #0017 – Comet ATLAS, Comet SWAN, Arcturus, Loma Prieta, Moon in my mirror Apr 29, 2020

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Go out tonight to see Arcturus,

Not as bright or blue as Sirius,

It's in Boötes you see,

Above his left knee,

A sight to behold for the curious

DON MACHHOLZ

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