https://astronomy.unt.edu/observatories/rafes-urban-astronomy-center
https://astronomy.unt.edu/observatories/star-parties
Super cool field trip. $5 per person and it's entirely outdoors, so wear coats/gloves/hats in winter. Also, when we went, it was very crowded. It's owned and run by the University of North Texas Physics Department, so there were staff/students everywhere to ask questions and work the high-powered telescopes in the two silos.
My kids were able to locate/see Mars, Jupiter and four of its moons, Saturn and its rings, two meteors, and a star cluster in Orion using the telescopes that they have for people to use. We also went inside the missile silo and were allowed to look through a high-powered telescope at a nebula and star nursery. About an hour after it started, the staff gave a talk, pointing out various objects in the sky.
Super awesome astronomy field trip! We were there for over two hours, which was a lot longer than I expected.
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