Judy Meyer is one of the guides profiled in “Meet the Texperts! The State’s Best Tour Guides Want to Show You Around.” More than twenty years ago, Judy Meyer moved to West Texas from Idaho after her husband got a job working on the telescopes at McDonald Observatory, the University of Texas facility in the Davis Mountains. Meyer, who has degrees in chemistry and math, spent two years making sandwiches in the observatory’s cafe before a position came open on the program staff.TM: What kinds of tours do you give?JM: During the daytime, we have a guided tour that goes to two of the research telescopes. I like showing off the Hobby-Eberly Telescope—it’s one of the biggest in the world. The star party is the…
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