Activities & Events

  •  The EAS will participate in the Seattle Science Festival's event 'Puget Sound and Beyond Star Party', by hosting a public observing night at Harborview Park in Everett from 4:00 pm until midnight on Saturday June 8th. Telescopes will be set up for public viewing of the Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, various star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae visible from Everett.
  • Our May club meeting will be on Saturday the 25th at 3pm at the Evergreen branch library in South Everett. EAS member Ken Hoffman will present “Getting Started with DSLR Astro-Imaging”.
    This is in response to requests for a simple astro-imaging-101 talk, especially for folks that have not tried it before, or who would like to try it out.
    How you can get started without enormous expenditures.
    Ken will cover some fundamental topics, and provide some handouts with tips and info.

    Talk to include:
    • How I use tools, like Stellarium and Cartes Du Ceil, to pick my scope for a target
    • Low / medium cost guiding
    • Low cost tools to control your camera
    • DSS: Darks, Flats, Bias, etc., for ‘calibrating’ your image
    • Tweaking the final image
    • Camera mods and filters
  • Our April club meeting was on Saturday the 20th at 3pm at the Evergreen branch library in South Everett. The presentation was ‘Saturn – Lord of the Rings’.

EAS member Ron Tam has offered a flexible opportunity to EAS members to come to his home north of Snohomish for observing on clear weekend evenings and for EAS star parties. Anyone wishing to do so needs to contact him in advance and confirm available dates, and let him know if plans change. “Our place is open for star parties any Saturday except weekends of the Full Moon. People can call to get weather conditions or to confirm that there is a star party. Our phone number is (360) 568-5152. They can e-mail me too (tam1951 at frontier.com) but I don't check my email daily. They can email me for directions if they have never been out here.” Listed below are proposed dates for planned EAS star parties at my *Ron Tam’s place, depending upon the weather, of course. Call Ron about spur-of-the- moment observing.

Upcoming Star Parties
Date:
(weather permitting)		 Location of Star Party
  Shutdown for the winter. Will resume in the spring.

Astro Calendar
May
May 03 Space Day
May 05 Eta Aquarids meteor shower peak
May 07 Mercury passes 0.5 degrees from Mars
May 10 Annular solar eclipse (visible from Austrlia, Pacific Ocean)
May 25 EAS Meeting - 3:00 PM at Evergreen branch library
May 25 Penumbral lunar Eclipse
May 25 Mercury passes 1.4 degrees from Venus
May 27 Mercury passes 2.4 degrees from Jupiter
May 28 Venus passes 1.0 degrees from Jupiter
June
Jun 05-07 Sedona Star Festival, Sedona, Arizona
Jun 06-09 Cherry Springs Star Party 2013, Cherry Springs State Park, PA
Jun 12 Mercury at its greatest eastern elongation (24 degrees) western sky
Jun 16 Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar at opposition (42.05 AU)
Jun 20 Mercury passes 2.0 degrees from Venus
Jun 20 Asteroid 3325 TARDIS closest approach to Earth (2.26 AU)
Jun 21 Summer Solstice, 05:04 UT
Jun 22 EAS Meeting - 3:00 PM at Evergreen branch library
Jun 24 Moon occults Pluto