McDonald's Observatory

We visited McDonald Observatory over the weekend, and got to see a live image of the sun.   Of course, we can get eye damage if we look directly at the sun, but they used a close up image and projected it onto the screen.   Actually, it looked more like a big white golf ball.   However, we were able to see some sun flares!   In addition to this, we learned that we are coming out of a rather long Sunspot Minimum.   Our tour also included visiting the 107-inch telescope.   They have Star Parties three times a week, and these are open to the general public. We visited one of the Star Parties several years ago, and got to look through some telescopes!