Winter Starlight

large antenna dish under a night sky with colorful stars and the hazy light of the Milky Way

Geodesy ground station at McDonald Observatory in Texas on Sept. 15, 2023 | Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford | Full-size image and downloads

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center operates this geodetic station at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas. Geodesy is the science of precisely measuring properties of the Earth such as its shape (within millimeters).

The observatory invited CreatiVets to meet at their facility for our photography workshop and to tour their huge telescopes. Too much awesome to deal with, honestly, but I did my best.