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Upcoming Meetings

UT Tower with orange flowers in foreground

Austin 2026 Meeting

Friday, March 6
Saturday, March 7

Location

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Registration & Meeting Program: TBD

White telescope dome with pine trees and startrails

West Texas 2026 Meeting

Friday, July 10
Saturday, July 11

Location

McDonald Observatory
Fort Davis, TX

Registration & Meeting Program: TBD

Past Meetings

diagram showing full HETDEX catalog in radial distance from Earth

Summer 2025 Meeting

Friday, July 25
Saturday, July 26

Location

McDonald Observatory
Fort Davis, TX

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Artist's concept of a young, newly discovered planet, exposed to observation by a warped debris disk.

Winter 2025 Meeting

Friday, February 28
Saturday, March 1

Locations

Friday
Texas Science and Natural History Museum

Saturday
San Jacinto Hall – MPR

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Meeting Recap
the McDonald Observatory 82-inch reflector telescope on Mt. Locke at the time of dedication in 1939

Summer 2024 Meeting

Friday, July 26
Saturday, July 27

Location

McDonald Observatory
Fort Davis, TX

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pink, purple, and white gaseous looking still frame from a STARFORGE simulation of star formation in a massive (20,000 solar mass) giant molecular cloud

Winter 2024 Meeting

Friday, February 23
Saturday, February 24

Location

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

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