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Texas A&M Astronomical Observatory This page was last edited on 27 December 2023, at 00:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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]
Texas A&M Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Texas A&M University's Department of Physics. It is located in College Station, Texas, USA. Latitude: N 30° 34' 21.78" Longitude: W 96° 21' 59.94" Elevation: 283 ft. (86.2584 m)
UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, operated by the University of Texas at Austin, and located in Fort Davis, Texas (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
Texas A&M Astronomical Observatory: College Station, Texas, US Theodore Jacobsen Observatory: 1895 Seattle, Washington, US Thompson Observatory: 1968 Beloit, Wisconsin, US Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory: Almaty, Kazakhstan Tuorla Observatory: 1952 Piikkiö, Finland Trieste Observatory: Trieste, Italy Troodos Observatory: 2023
Name/Observatory Aperture cm (in) Type Location then (Original Site) Extant* Harvard Great Refractor, Harvard College Observatory [15] 38 cm (15") achromat: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: 1847 Merz und Mahler (Mitchell cupola), Cincinnati Observatory: 28 cm (11") achromat: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: 1843 West Point Observatory 9.75 inch Fitz equatorial
The SFA Observatory (SFA) is an astronomical observatory located 17 km (11 miles) north of Nacogdoches, Texas (USA). The observatory is owned and operated by Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), and opened in 1976. It is used for undergraduate instruction and for graduate-level research.
The Otto Struve Telescope was the first major telescope to be built at McDonald Observatory. Located in the Davis Mountains in West Texas, the Otto Struve Telescope was designed by Warner & Swasey Company and constructed between 1933 and 1939 by the Paterson-Leitch Company. Its 82-inch (2.1 m) mirror was the second largest in the world at the time.