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LUWD #112 Galaxy NGC 891
"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
“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
"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
"This is how the Massive Marathon was invented."-Don Machholz...
LUWD #108 The Pleiades
"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
"I would rather be sweeping than sleeping".-Don Machholz...
LUWD #106 Comets in 2022
"Is it a bird, is it a plane? No kitty, that is the moon!"-Don Machholz...
LUWD #105 Mercury in the Evening
"This is a good week to look at the moon."Don Machholz...
LUWD #104 The Year’s First Meteor Shower
"In 1922 the IAU named 88 constellations; this must have been number 89."-Don Machholz...
LUWD #103 A Family of Comets
"The winter constellations are here, ready for another season of viewing."Don Machholz...
LUWD #102 Comet Leonard in the Evening Sky
"This could produce a meteor shower on Venus."Don Machholz...
LUWD #101 A Comet in the Twilight Zone
“When Albert Einstein was a boy, if he ever did anything stupidly, did people say to him: ‘hey, way to go, Einstein!’?”-Don Machholz...
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