Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Austin, Fort Davis and McDonald Observatory, Texas

Over the last few days:

I spent two days in Austin at the start of the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. I attended some educator sessions, met many people I had emailed in the past so I put faces to names. I also got lots of free books, DVD's, etc which I can't get in Australia.

I drove to fort Davis today in a Mazda 6 I have hired, I went to the evening star viewing at the McDonald visitors center and camped that night in Fort Davis.

I toured the telescopes the next day up on the mountain including the old ...

... one of the largest in the world and,

the people behind the scenes.

Cheers,
Jeff

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