Activities & Events

  • Our May club meeting will be on Saturday the 12th at 3pm at the Evergreen Branch Library meeting room. The presentation will be will be “Extreme Planets” describing some of the diversity seen in the rapidly expanding number of known exo-planets (around stars other than the Sun).

    Attending members will be eligble for a door prize.

  • Our April club meeting was on Saturday the 14th. The speaker was Peter Yoachim,  from the UW astronomy dept. with a talk called "Sailing Off the Edge of Spiral Galaxies, and Adventures in West Texas".

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
May 18/19 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Jun 15/16 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Jul 13/14 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Aug 10/11 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Sep 14/15 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Oct 19/20 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Nov 9/10 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place

Astro Calendar
May
May 04 Space Day
May 05 Eta Aquarids meteor shower peak
May 12 EAS Meeting - Saturday 3:00 pm - Evergreen Branch library
May 18/19 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
May 20 Annular solar eclipse, visible from China, Japan, & USA
May 22 Mercury Passes 0.4 degrees from Jupiter
June
Jun 05 Venus Transits the Sun
Jun 15/16 EAS Star Party at Ron Tam’s Place
Jun 17 Moon occults Jupiter
Jun 21 Summer solstice, 11:11 UT
Jun 21-23 2012 - Mount Bachelor Star Party @ Brothers
Jun 29 Dwarf Planet 134340 Pluto at opposition (31.2 AU)