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Upcoming Activities & Events
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On
Friday and Saturday
evenings, September 5th and
6th from dusk (about 7:00 PM)
until around 11:30 pm, the Everett Astronomical
Society will hold free public ‘Star Party’ observing sessions
at Harborview Park, in Everett,
(weather permitting), in conjunction with Everett Parks and Recreation, as
part of the fall International Astronomy Day.
Members of the EAS are urged to attend and bring a telescope to share
viewing with the public. The weather forecast is promising so far. (There is
no daytime activity at the library this fall, just the evening star parties
at Harborview Park.)
Directions to the park -
http://www.everettastro.org/directions_to_harboview_park.htm
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The next club meeting
will be 7:00pm Saturday, Sep 13th
(PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE) at the Aurora Astro
Products Store. The store is located at
11419 19th Avenue SE #A102, Everett, WA 98208. The
speaker will be Jonathan Fay, of
Microsoft Research, talking about and demonstrating the
WorldWide Telescope.
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software
environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual
telescope—bringing together terra-bytes of imagery from the best ground and
space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the
universe. It allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky,
planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See
the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then
crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a
supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha
view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen
cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby
stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal
the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope.
Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets,
as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth
and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience
Engine.
Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim
Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education
communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore
and understand the universe like never before.
We
look forward to seeing you there. (It may be helpful for some folks to bring a folding chair
to the meeting.)
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Upcoming Star Parties
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Date:
(weather permitting) |
Location of Star Party
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| Sep 5 - Sep 6 |
Harborview park, Everett |
| Sep 20 |
Ron Tam's place in Snohomish. Email tam1951 at verizon.net for
directions. |
| Oct 4 |
Ron Tam's place in Snohomish. Email tam1951 at verizon.net for
directions. |
| Nov 1 |
Ron Tam's place in Snohomish. Email tam1951 at verizon.net for
directions. |
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Astro Calendar
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August 2008 |
| Aug 01-03 |
RCA Trout Lake Star Party 2008 – Trout Lake WA |
| Aug 01 |
Total Solar Eclipse, Visible in Canada, Greenland |
| Aug 01 |
Alpha Capricornids meteor Shower Peak |
| Aug 2-10 |
Mt Kobau Star Party – Osoyoos BC |
| Aug 06 |
Southern Iota Aquarids meteor Shower peak |
| Aug 6-10 |
Mt. Bachelor Star Party - near Bend, OR |
| Aug 12 |
Perseids meteor shower peak |
| Aug 15 |
Neptune At Opposition |
| Aug 16 |
EAS Meeting 7:00 pm Aurora Astro Products store |
| Aug 16 |
Partial Lunar Eclipse |
| Aug 17 |
kappa-Cygnids meteor shower peak |
| Aug 19 |
11:12am Northern iota-Aquarids meteor shower peak |
| Aug 23 |
EAS monthly suburban star party – Ron Tam’s place |
| Aug 25-31 |
Oregon Star Party |
| Aug TBD |
Deception Pass Star Party - Bowman Bay, Deception Pass, WA |
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September 2008 |
| Sep 08 |
delta-Aurigids meteor shower peak |
| Sep 11 |
Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (27 Degrees) |
| Sep 13 |
EAS Meeting 7:00 pm Aurora Astro Products store |
| Sep 13 |
Uranus At Opposition |
| Sep 19 |
Piscids meteor shower peak |
| Sep 20 |
EAS monthly suburban star party – Ron Tam’s place |
| Sep 22 |
Autumnal Equinox (22:16 UT) |
| Sep 26-28 |
Orion Nebula Star Party – Table Mt. WA |
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