Our next speaker is Andrea Jones and she will be speaking on Mars Exploration Missions and Future
Guest Speaker: Dr. Gianluca Masi
Next 14 April, starting at 23:15 UT, the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC) will offer you a unique chance to explore cosmic landscapes from the comfort of your chair.
Thanks to a joint collaboration between NOVAC and the Virtual Telescope Project (VT)in Italy (www.virtualtelescope.eu), a powerful telescope in Italy will be capturing in real time images of the most beautiful cosmic gems and will share the view with all those connected from all around the planet.
All this with the live commentary of the astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, PhD, founder and scientific director of the Virtual Telescope Project, who will be available on the event chat for questions and comments.
We will surf the northern Spring skies, spying beautiful, distant galaxies like Messier 51, Messier 100, NGC 4565 and so on, also spying dying stars, exploding supernovae millions and millions of light years away. On our way back home, we will visit planet Saturn and its elegant, amazing rings. Of course, participants can suggest their own preferred destinations via chat, adding interactivity to the trip.
NOVAC and VT will open the online event to all, for free: to join, you just need to access, at the event date and time, the page:www.astrowebtv.org
In case of cloudy weather at the observatory, backup images will be used.
This event is part of the Global Astronomy Month 2013.
This meeting is a week earlier due to Mother’s Day. Our guest speaker is Dr. Madhulika “Lika” Guhathakurta. She’s a solar physicist, program scientist for the STEREO mission, and lead scientist of NASA’s “Living with a Star” program. She’ll be speaking about space weather and solar storms.
More information on our general meetings can be found at: http://www.novac.com/meetings/
Sunday’s speaker is Will Marchant, who will be delivering a talk on the NuSTAR Mission
Details about NOVAC meetings can be found at http://www.novac.com/meetings/ – including information about the club’s informal pre-meeting dinners at Red Hot & Blue.
NOTE: This meeting will be held in the “Showcase Room” which is the meeting room at the base of the Research Hall Observatory instead of the normal location.
Jason Lee will talk about Coronal Mass Ejections
Details about NOVAC meetings can be found at http://www.novac.com/meetings/ – including information about the club’s informal pre-meeting dinners at Red Hot & Blue.
NOVAC VAAS Webpage for Signup – You must sign up for event
VAAS 2013 Annual Meeting Program
8:30 AM – Sign In begins
9:00 AM – Breakfast
9:45 – VAAS 2013 Welcome by NOVAC President Phil Wherry
10:00 AM – Alan Goldberg – NOVAC
“Color Perception and Meaning in Astronomy”
11:00 AM – An Astronomy Round-Table Discussion
12:00 PM – Lunch & Raffle
1:00 PM – Key Note Speaker Sean O’Brien – National Air & Space Museum
“Some Observations by a Planetarium Educator”
2:00-> 3:00 PM – Safe Solar Viewing and Socializing
Details about NOVAC meetings can be found at http://www.novac.com/meetings/ – including information about the club’s informal pre-meeting dinners at Red Hot & Blue.
Details about NOVAC meetings can be found at http://www.novac.com/meetings/ – including information about the club’s informal pre-meeting dinners.
Sunday November 10th, 2013 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Guest Speaker: Daniel Reichart
Topic: Outreach growth for Skynet
Location: Meeting Room at the base of the Observatory in Research Hall
This meeting is cancelled due to weather – Elections will be held in January and “Show and Tell” will be booked for another time in the future.
NOVAC Members,
Our next meeting will be Sunday Evening, December 8, 7:00 pm with an equipment “show and tell” event with NOVAC members bringing their astronomy equipment for others to see. You will be able to talk with the equipment owners about how and why they use what they have for observing. We will meet in Room 163, Research Hall, George Mason University. Check the web page, http://www.novac.com/meetings/, if you need directions and details.
We are looking for members to bring their equipment like last year. Email webmaster@novac.com (and the list for that matter) to let us know what you are planning on bringing.
Also, bring along whatever you use to power your equipment (unless it is your automobile!) so that attendees can see the creative ways folks get power to their scopes and mounts and accessories.
If you are setting up equipment to show, please try to arrive between 6:15 and 6:45 to setup your things.
We will also have light refreshments in the spirit of making this a social event to honor all of our volunteers that served NOVAC so well during the past year.
We will elect officers for 2014 at our December NOVAC Meeting. Candidate nominations have been received for each position. If you wish to run for one of the officer or trustee positions, please self-nominate by emailing your desire to do so at this email address: elections@novac.com
We look forward to you coming to attend this fun NOVAC meeting!