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The Texas Star Party (TSP) is a large annual star party in the United States. TSP was started by Deborah Byrd , members of the Austin Astronomical Society, and McDonald Observatory in August 1979. It was a weekend gathering of amateur astronomers at Davis Mountains State Park near McDonald Observatory in far west Texas.
McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.The facility is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, with additional facilities on Mount Fowlkes, approximately 1.3 kilometers (0.81 mi) to the northeast. [1]
Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in the unincorporated community of Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, Texas.Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 to protect one of the best remaining examples of a United States Army fort in the southwestern United States.
Fort Davis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,201 at the 2010 census, [ 3 ] up from 1,050 at the 2000 census.
Deborah Byrd (born March 1, 1951, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American science journalist. She is editor-in-chief of EarthSky , which presents science news and night sky information. The website served more than 21 million users in 2019, according to Google Analytics.
SH 166 facilitated construction of Davis Mountains State Park and the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory during the 1930s. SH 166 is located entirely within Jeff Davis County and forms part of the route linking Fort Davis, the county seat, to Valentine, the county's only incorporated town. The highway link to Valentine is the ...
Davis, of Fort Worth, has been a fixture in Texas politics since 2009, when she was elected to the state Senate. She rose to national prominence with a 15-hour filibuster that killed an abortion ...
Star party in California A trailer-mounted Newtonian telescope on daytime display at the Stellafane star party in Vermont. A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers for the purpose of observing objects and events in the sky. Local star parties may be one-night affairs, but larger events can last a week or longer and attract hundreds or ...