Allen's time at the McDonald observatory

The McDonald observatory is located in western Texas. We went there after we hiked in Big Bend National Park.

The telescopes at the observatory are used for research and to look at stars. The observatory is home to the world’s largest telescope the hobby Eblery telescope.  At the observatory there are four telescopes that the public can look through. There are also smaller telescopes at the observatory.  The smallest telescope they have is the. 0.8 telescopes.

 During the constellation tour we learned that Orion, the hunter is the most recognized constellation in the sky. Taurus also called the bull is right next to Orion. The little dipper and the big dipper aren’t constellations. Pegasus doesn’t look like a triangle it looks like a square. The guide used a laser pointer to point out the constellations. 

The sun is also a star and it’s called the night star. All stars are located in the Milky Way. Polaris is called the North Star because it always due north star. Satellites aren’t stars they are moving objects   that get brighter each time they get closer to the surface.  Satellites come once a year during certain months at certain times during the night. 

The McDonald Observatory  was very  fun and we learned lots of stuff  and we learned a lot of interesting facts about stars and about are universe.  I hope to go back there again