{"id":109,"date":"2009-03-07T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=109"},"modified":"2009-03-07T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T05:16:00","slug":"western-observatories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Western Observatories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SbIDaVYwJ0I\/AAAAAAAAADs\/iHlD2Qn4OSk\/s1600-h\/starrynight.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SbIDaVYwJ0I\/AAAAAAAAADs\/iHlD2Qn4OSk\/s320\/starrynight.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>We&#8217;re interested in trying to stop by an observatory during our trip.  Here is a list of observatories in the states along our route&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span><span>Texas<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.sfasu.edu\/observatory\/obs.htm\">Stephen F. Austin Univ. Observatory<\/a> (Nacogdoches)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.tamu.edu\/TAMU_Astrophysics\/Outreach.html\">Texas A&#038;M Univ. Observatory<\/a> (College Station)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcdonaldobservatory.org\/\">McDonald Observatory<\/a> (Fort Davis)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmns.org\/see_do\/george_observatory.asp?r=1\">George Observatory<\/a> (Houston)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span>New Mexico<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taas.org\/taas\/load.php?fil=campusobs.txt\">University of New Mexico Campus Observatory<\/a> (Albuquerque)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infohost.nmt.edu\/~astro\/etscorn.html\">Etscorn Campus Observatory<\/a> (Socorro)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span>Colorado<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.du.edu\/~rstencel\/Chamberlin\/\">Chamberlin Observatory<\/a> (Denver)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lyra.colorado.edu\/sbo\/public\/openhouse.html\">Sommers-Bausch Observatory<\/a> (Boulder)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/df\/dfp\/observatory.cfm\">USAF Academy Observatory<\/a> (Colorado Springs) &#8211; rare events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mark Peairs has a long <a href=\"http:\/\/home.pacbell.net\/peairs\/observe.html\">list of observatories that have public viewings<\/a>.  (I don&#8217;t know how recently his list is maintained&#8230; but it&#8217;s better than anything I&#8217;ve got!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re interested in trying to stop by an observatory during our trip. Here is a list of observatories in the states along our route&#8230; Texas Stephen F. Austin Univ. Observatory (Nacogdoches) Texas A&#038;M Univ. Observatory (College Station) McDonald Observatory (Fort Davis) George Observatory (Houston) New Mexico University of New Mexico Campus Observatory (Albuquerque) Etscorn Campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}