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McDonald Observatory: Hobby-Eberly Telescope The Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory, Texas.

Hobby-Eberly Telescope

telescope, Texas, United States
Also known as: HET
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), telescope that is one of the largest in the world, with a mirror measuring 11.1 by 9.8 metres (36.4 by 32.2 feet). It is located on Mount Fowlkes (2,024 metres [6,640 feet]) at the University of Texas at Austinā€™s McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, U.S. The HET is named after Bill Hobby, lieutenant governor of Texas from 1973 to 1991, and Robert Eberly, a benefactor of Pennsylvania State University, which is...

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