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Hubble: The Missions that Enabled the Hubble Space Telescope to Unravel Mysteries of the Universe” A free public lecture by John M. Grunsfeld, Astronaut and Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate of NASA Hosted by the Philosophical Soc. of Washington, on Friday, March 6, 2015, 8:00 PM, at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, WDC (car & metro[...]

Our meetings on the second Sunday of the Month except in May when it would fall on Mother’s Day. The events are normally held evening at 7:00 pm in Research Hall Room 163 on the campus of George Mason University. Our web page, http://www.novac.com/meetings/, has directions and additional details. For February 8th 2015 we will be in Observatory[...]

 

Public observing at Great Meadow is cancelled due to rainy weather and wet field conditions. ~ Lyle 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.

Eclipse totality will be hard to see unless you happen to be traveling to the Arctic (Svalbard or Faroe Islands.) However much of northern Europe and Eurasia will experience 90% coverage of the sun.

 

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[...]

  Please read the C.M. Crockett Page for park details. Details will be updated for the Messier Marathon too!