Calendar

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.

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

Public Night @ Sky Meadows in conjunction with SI – Check http://www.novac.com/wp/observing/sky-meadows/ for site details and directions.

NOTE: There is no admittance to Sky Meadows State Park after 9pm! Even if the event goes later.

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!

Please read the C.M. Crockett Page for park details.

Too much snow and ice on the field to hold the event.

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.

The Great Meadow public observing session is a go.  Because the field is too

wet to drive on, THE LOCATION FOR TONIGHT’S OBSERVING WILL BE IN THE GRAVEL

PARKING LOT NEXT TO THE STADIUM.  When you enter at the main gate,

immediately turn right and go 1/10th of a mile and turn left into the

parking lot.  I will have signs up on how to get there.  The session is from

6 to 11 pm.

Hope you can come out and join us!

Directions

Via I-66 West from DC – The exit from I-66 is exit 31 (The Plains exit; 9

miles past Haymarket), left turn (head south) onto HW 245 (Old Tavern Road).

Go approximately 1.9 miles to the Pass Gate entrance on the left side. The

Pass Gate entrance is across the road from where Old Winchester Road

intersects Old Tavern Road. If you intersect HW 17 you have gone too far.

When you enter at the main gate, immediately turn right and go 1/10th of a

mile and turn left into the parking lot.

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.