LUWD #111 Accidental Visual Comet Discoveries

Looking Up with Don

Feb 15 2022 | 00:30:53

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Show Notes

“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

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