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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 #0096 Gegenschein Nov 02, 2021

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"So now is a suitable time to see the gegenschein."

Don Machholz

LUWD #0095 See Some Comets This Week Oct 25, 2021

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"Comets are scattered around the sky."

Don Machholz

LUWD #0094 A Rhyming Messier Marathon Talk Oct 19, 2021

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"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 Oct 12, 2021

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“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 Oct 05, 2021

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“We’ll know in two weeks, when communication with Mars resumes, if Martians have visited our rovers.”

Don Machholz

LUWD #0091 Distant Moons Sep 28, 2021

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“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 Sep 21, 2021

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I'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

LUWD #0089 Tales of Mercury Sep 14, 2021

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"Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Wow, who comes up with these names?"

-Don Machholz

LUWD #0088 Neptune Sep 06, 2021

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"Nearly 90,000 days in one year, I wonder how many holidays they have?"

Don Machholz

LUWD #0087 That Bright Spotlight is Jupiter! Aug 31, 2021

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"It is there, but can you see it?"

Don Machholz

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