Venus begins to change from the morning star to the evening star, lasting until March 2017.
See front page of NOVAC Site for changes to event. More information about Great Meadow including directions and parking visit the Great Meadow Site page.
Please read the C.M. Crockett Page for park details.
Our meetings on the second Sunday of the Month, The events are normally held evening at 7:00 pm in Research Hall Room 163 on the campus of George Mason University.
Our web page, http://www.novac.com/meetings/, has directions and additional details.
We look forward to seeing you on Sunday evenings!
In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year when the Sun is farthest north. In the southern hemisphere, this would be your winter solstice, marking the shortest day of the year. The summer solstice marks the first day of the season of summer. The declination of the Sun on the (northern) summer solstice is known as the tropic of cancer (23° 27′).
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/SummerSolstice.html
In 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft to conduct a study of Jupiter’s polar region. Today, it arrives!
The mission aims to reveal the story of Jupiter’s formation and details of its interior structure. Data from Juno will provide insights about our solar system’s beginnings.