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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
October’s Full Moon is the “Harvest Moon” (English), “Hunter’s Moon” (Native American), “Travel Moon”, “Dying Grass Moon”, “Blood Moon”, or “Sharad Poornima”.
November’s Full Moon is the “Hunter’s Moon” (English), “Beaver Moon” (Native American), “Frost Moon”, “Snow Moon” , or “Kartik Poornima”.
December’s Full Moon is the “Oak Moon”, “Cold Moon”, “Frost Moon”, “Long Night’s Moon”, “Moon Before Yule”, or “Margashira Poornima.
Great viewing for 2014 as this is right next to the dark (new) moon. Look for meteors radiating from the constellation Bootes. The Quadrantid meteor shower will reach its maximum rate of activity. Some meteors will be visible each night from 1 Jan to 6 Jan, but the best show will be on this evening. The maximum number of meteors expected to be visible from a dark location is around 80 per hour (ZHR). The Moon will be 22 days old at the time of peak activity, and so will present minimal interference.
January’s Full Moon is the “Old Moon”, “Wolf Moon”, “Ice Moon”, “Moon after Yule”, or “Paush Poornima”