Activities & Events

  • Our January club meeting will be on Saturday the 28th at 3pm at the Evergreen Branch Library meeting room. The speaker has not been confirmed yet.

    Attending members will be eligble for a door prize

  • In December we had our annual holiday dinner on Saturday December 17th at Alfy's on Broadway in Everett.

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
  Shut down for the winter

Astro Calendar
January
Jan 03 Quadrantids meteor shower peak
Jan 05 Earth at perihelion (0.983 AU from Sun)
Jan 08 Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) closest approach to Earth (0.49 AU)
Jan 23 Chinese New Year
Jan 26 50th anniversary (1962), Ranger 3 Launch
Jan 28 EAS Meeting - Saturday 3:00 pm - Evergreen Branch library
Jan 31 Asteroid 433 Eros closest approach to Earth (0.18 AU)
February
Feb 10 Venus passes 0.3 degrees from Uranus
Feb 14 Mercury passes 1.3 degrees from Neptune
Feb 23 25th anniversary (1987), Supernova 1987A explosion
Feb 25 EAS Meeting - Saturday 3:00 pm - Evergreen Branch library