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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.

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

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.

see http://cantonbecker.com/retrograde for details…

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,[...]

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[...]

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