Calendar

April’s Full Moon is the “Egg Moon”, “Pink Moon”, “Sprouting Grass Moon”, “Fish Moon”, “Seed Moon”, “Waking Moon”, or “Hanuman Jayanti”.

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/

May’s Full Moon is the “Milk Moon”, “Flower Moon”, “Corn Planting Moon”, “Hare’s Moon”, or “Buddha Poornima”.

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.

June’s Full Moon is the “Flower Moon”, “Strawberry Moon”, “Honey Moon”, “Rose Moon”, “Hot Moon”, “Planting Moon”, or “Wat Poornima”.

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.

July’s Full Moon is the “Hay Moon”, “Buck Moon”, “Thunder Moon”, “Mead Moon”, or “Guru Poornima”.