 Orion Circle
Members of the Orion Circle and Orion Supernova contribute at the $500 or $1,000 level and meet once a year for a special, invitation-only festival in West Texas, hosted by McDonald Observatory Director David L. Lambert.
The 2010 Orion Festival will be held at McDonald Observatory on Saturday, October 16th. For reservations at the Astronomers’ Lodge, please call 432.426.3640, ext. 4. You may also make reservation in Fort Davis and the surrounding area. For area lodging, please visit the Fort Davis Chamber of Commerce.
To do the most you can to improve science education nationwide — and to gain access to the most current Observatory news and events — become an Orionid today.
Member
Resources
For access to Orion-only Web pages, please contact Suzanne
Geiger at friends@mcdonaldobservatory.org for the password;
or call 888-442-4356.
Orion Festival 2009 Presentations: We’re happy to provide the following post-Festival resources for you as follows:
Presentation by Dr. Lambert (Powerpoint)
Education and Outreach report to Orion members (PDF)
Betelgeuse newsletter
online (PDF format)
McDonald Observatory promotional pieces
QuickTime
movies of aluminizing the 82-inch telescope and
Live From McDonald Observatory
The
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)
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some time; read more about the research and issues and
how Texas Astronomy is in a position to lead the way in
research of dark energy.
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