Welcome to the Everett Astronomical Society

Upcoming Activities & Events

• 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

• 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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