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February’s Full Moon is the “Snow Moon”, “Hunger Moon”, “Storm Moon”, “Candles Moon” or “Magh Poornima”

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO IMPENDING WEATHER

1st talk at 6PM (weather permitting), same talk at 6:45PM (weather permitting), observing starts at 6:30PM until 8PM (weather permitting).

Observatory Website

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

Our next speaker is Andrea Jones and she will be speaking on Mars Exploration Missions and Future

This event has been cancelled due to weather.

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.

1st talk at 7PM, same talk at 7:45PM, observing starts at 7:30PM until 9PM.

Observatory Website

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

Tuesday 26 March 2013: This date IF AND ONLY IF 19 March 2013 canceled due to weather. 1st talk at 7PM, same talk at 7:45PM, observing starts at 7:30PM until 9PM.

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