News and Updates
Elected Officials 2016 The elected officials of NOVAC are the Officers, each of whom serves a one-year term. Nominations for candidates are made at the November general meeting, and elections are held at the December meeting. See the contact page for email addresses. President: Terry Cabell Vice President: Chris Lee Secretary: John McDonnell Treasurer: Barbara Whitehead NOVAC Trustees Trustees [...]
The forecast for this weekend's Star Gaze event poses serious risks to the safety of our volunteers as well as members of the general public who might wish to attend the event. Consequently, we have decided to cancel Star Gaze for 2015. NOVAC has several other observing-only public nights scheduled during the rest of 2015, [...]
NOVAC's Byron Berget Imaging Group will hold its next processing party on Saturday September 5 from 10am to 1pm at the Patrick Henry Library in Vienna. The room is just inside the main door to the right. Bring your images from AHSP or your backyard, your laptops, or just your questions, and we'll process our [...]
The photos are coming in fast and furious from attendees and I'm processing videos up to YouTube as I post this message. Go to www.ahsp.org to look at all the photos and videos from this years event as I post them this week.
While temporary restrictions on parking have been lifted at Sky Meadows, please see the members-only Sky Meadows page for details.
Sunday, July 12, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Speaker: Philip Graff Topic: The production and effects of gravitational waves Location: Research Hall, Room 163 Meeting Logistics: Paid parking is available in the Shenandoah Parking Deck (formerly Sandy Creek Parking Deck), which is behind the building. Please enter at the back side of the building [...]
This is the fastest the event has ever sold out! Thanks to all that registered for our event this year! We will be sending more communications to attendees in the weeks to come as August 14th comes closer. Look in the coming days and weeks for emails with more information and conference calls dates and [...]
NOVAC's general meeting will be held on the campus of George Mason University on Sunday, June 14th. We will meet in Research Hall Room 163 at 7:00 p.m. In addition to our regular business topics, I am pleased to announce that our recent Science Fair Award recipients, Medha Uppal and Lara Kornblut, will be joining [...]
After some hunting, we've found a time, date, and location for the next meeting of NOVAC's astro-imaging group, named in honor of late NOVACian Byron Bergert. Tentatively, we're hoping to hold this on 23 May from 10:00-1:00, in a meeting room at the Loudoun County Public Library at 43316 Hay Road in Ashburn, VA. This [...]
It is with tremendous sadness that we announce NOVAC has lost one of our most beloved members and shining stars of our club due to heart failure on March 10, 2015. Phil has been a NOVAC member since 2002, in that time he has done so much to carry the torch for the club in [...]
