NOVAC General Meeting
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March 9, 2025

NOVAC Public Meeting, NOVAC Swap Meet, 12/8/2024, 7:30 pm EST

  Come to George Mason for the NOVAC monthly meeting and bring along any astro gear that you would like to trade or sell or give to other NOVAC members.  Doors to the meeting room will open at 7 PM. For those who chose to not venture out in the cold, the Google meet connection

NOVAC Public Meeting, Dr. Robert Smith presents The Herschels: A Most Astronomical Family and the Transformation of Astronomy, 10/13/2024, 7:30 pm EDT

Dr. Robert Smith from the University of Alberta will present:  The Herschels: A Most Astronomical Family and the Transformation of Astronomy. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, professional astronomers who worked at official observatories focused on the motions of astronomical bodies. The stars were generally only of interest as they provided a background grid