“Charles Messier lived some two hundred years ago in France,
from where he searched for comets, whenever he got the chance”
Don Machholz
“Is it a bird, is it a plane? No kitty, that is the moon!”-Don Machholz Podcast-106-Map-1-Evening-SkyDownload Podcast-106-Map-2-Morning-SkyDownload
Unpredictable, inexplicable, once busted up, now busting out, gas and dust tail, small scale detail, written off as dead Apparently it was misread See...
"The crescent moon makes a nice pattern with Venus, Mars, and Saturn on Monday morning, March 28"-Don Machholz