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Nova East, Atlantic Canada's longest running Star Party
August 17 - August 19, 2012
2012 Guest Speaker: David Levy
Organized by the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada, Halifax Centre
and the Minas Astronomy Group
Location: Smileys Provincial Park, Hants County, Nova Scotia
Welcome to the home page of Nova East 2012, the 26th anniversary of Atlantic Canada's regional star party. Nova East was originally established as the camping and observing weekend for the Halifax Centre, and has grown to include participants from many other astronomy clubs in the Atlantic region, and a number of attendees from the northeastern United States as well.
The keynote speaker and special guest at Nova East 2012 will be David LevyAll participants come to enjoy jet black skies. A limiting magnitude of +6 is the norm.
Nova East occurs on the weekend of the new moon phase near the end of the summer.