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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.

Talk at 7PM. Observing session from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. Please verify the event is still on at the website below before going!

Observatory Website

Campus Map – The George Mason University Observatory at the Fairfax Campus building Research Hall formerly known as Research I.

March’s Full Moon is the “Lenten Moon”, “Worm Moon”, “Crow Moon”, “Crust Moon”, “Sugar Moon”, “Sap Moon”, “Chaste Moon”, or “Holi”.

The date (near March 21 in the northern hemisphere) when night and day are nearly the same length and Sun crosses the celestial equator (i.e., declination 0) moving northward. In the southern hemisphere, the vernal equinox corresponds to the center of the Sun crossing the celestial equator moving southward and occurs on the date of the northern autumnal equinox. The vernal equinox marks the first day of the season of spring.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/VernalEquinox.html

Talk at 7:30PM. Observing session from 8:00PM to 10:00PM. Please verify the event is still on at the website below before going!

Observatory Website

Campus Map – The George Mason University Observatory at the Fairfax Campus building Research Hall formerly known as Research I.

Event is cancelled due to weather.

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

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.