The First Virginia Astronomy Night (#49th overall):
When :
Wednesday February 20th, 2008
Where: 7705
Carrleigh Parkway Springfield, VA 22152 MAP
What: Featuring:
A
Total Lunar Eclipse (the last before 2010 (Dec 21st at 2am)).
And peeks at Mars and Saturn.
WEATHER CONDITIONS:
As
of Tuesday 2/20th forecast looks like the clouds and snow of the day will be
slowly moving out
during the eclipse.
6pm = 100% cloud cover, 8pm
= 80% cloud cover, 10pm = 50% cloud cover
This will change, keep checking back!
(You may check my sources below. They are best checked starting Monday PM)
The
Weather Channel Forecast: CLOUDS Sunset
5:51 pm, Nautical Twilight 6:49 pm, Astronomical Twilight 7:20pm
The Accuweather forecast for then is here
(Click on "Get Details" then on "Hourly Weather" for this
night)
or
Weather Underground
forecast is here
(go to hourly on this date)
or go to the Clear Sky Clock or
or try the
UCAR
RUC forecast : tonight's cloud cover (best after 3pm) ONLY
see: UCAR
- RUC Cloud Forecast Loop
We are interested in the 0300 UTC frame (with tomorrows date on it). Shading is
bad skies.
If the 0300 UTC frame isn't there yet, try back later in the day...it's only
created 12 hours in advance.
or even the National
Weather Service
(hover mouse over Sky Cover times- move forward +12 hours if the evening is not shown yet)
If cloudy we
can't reschedule.
The next eclipse visible in this area will occur Monday Morning, Dec 21st
2010 at 2am.
Who:
Operated by John
Ensworth,
Today's Solar and Lunar Information:
The forecasts below are provided by www.pobox.com/~clearskyclock
Washington D.C. / near Arlington, Virginia
A county park
and recreation facility used as an observing site by the Northern
Virginia Astronomy Club. In Midland.
Additional LINKS
to Astronomy Resources
Other
Clear Sky Clocks for Places I like to observe: Black
Mesa Oklahoma
Camp Creek, Arizona
(NE of Carefree/Cave Creek)
A nearby observatory, LAMP (17miles to the west of C.C.)
Oklahoma City
OKIE-TX
STAR PARTY WEATHER FORECAST (archived)