Meeting schedule and history of topics
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Meeting Date:
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Speaker
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Topic
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| Dec 13th 2008 |
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Holiday Dinner Meeting – Alfy’s on Broadway in Everett – 7:00 PM |
| Nov 22nd 2008 |
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“Secrets Of The Sun” describing many aspects of what we
understand about how the Sun works, its phenomenon, and how they affect
us on Earth, including fusion in the core, magnetic affects on its
surface (such as sunspots, solar flares, prominences, and coronal mass
ejections). The lifecycle from the formation of the Sun and solar system
to its final stages. Includes descriptions by leading astronomers, and
striking images and graphics. From ‗The Universe‘ series. |
| Oct 25th 2008 |
Lynne Jones, of UW
Astronomy |
The Large Synoptic
Survey Telescope (LSST) project -
http://www.lsst.org The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is planned
as a revolutionary facility which will produce an unprecedented
wide-field astronomical survey of our universe using an 8.4-meter
ground-based telescope. The LSST leverages innovative technology edge in
all subsystems: the camera (3200 Megapixels, the world's largest digital
camera), telescope (simultaneous casting of the primary and tertiary
mirrors; two aspheric optical surfaces on one substrate), and data
management (30 terabytes of data nightly, nearly instant alerts issued
for objects that change in position or brightness). |
| Sep 13th 2008 |
Jonathan Fay, Microsoft Research |
Demonstrating the
WorldWide Telescope. |
| Aug 16th 2008 |
Dr. Victoria Meadows, astrobiologist at the University of Washington
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"The Search For life* Beyond Earth". (* This
includes any and all forms of life, not aliens sending us radio signals,
but the search for biologically habitable places in our solar system and others.)
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| Jul 26th 2008 |
Henny H.J.G.L.M. Lamers
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"When galaxies collide".
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| Jun 21st 2008 |
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“Death Star” video.
This video describes the 30-year struggle to understand the source of
gamma bursts |
| May 24th 2008 |
Kristine Washburn – Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Everett Community College
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Her talk will be “A Beginner’s Guide to Primordial
Black Holes”. This should definitely be worth taking a break from your holiday weekend
to hear. We look forward to seeing you there. |
| Apr 12th 2008 |
Paul Rodman – author of AstroPlanner observing session planning and
logging software
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Demo of the ways planning what to view can enhance your observing
sessions.
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| Mar 29th 2008 |
Graciela Matrajt |
Organic materials
found in particles returned by Stardust mission |
| Feb 16th 2008 |
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Lunar eclipse slides from previous
eclipses, and discussion of observing the upcoming Feb 20th eclipse,
along with video ‘Asteroids Deadly Impact’ |
| Jan 19th 2008 |
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The recent Timothy Ferris film “Seeing
in the Dark” about amateur observing the sky. |
| Dec 8th 2007 |
Dr. Ron Hobbs, Solar System Ambassador |
Holiday Dinner Meeting – Alfy’s on Broadway in Everett – 7:00 PM – A terrific presentation called
"Barnstorming the Planets" - a survey of many amazing recent images and discoveries from NASA and ESA robotic spacecraft that are roaming the
solar system. |
| Dec 1st 2007 |
Andrew Connolly |
From the university of Washington, and the ‘daddy’ of Google Sky, speaking about 'Google Sky and its
potential as a link between amateur and professional astronomy'. |
| Nov 7th 2007 |
Dr. Victoria Meadows, from the UW Astronomy department |
Dr. Victoria Meadows had to cancel at the last minute. An alternate presented was presented instead. |
| Oct 13th 2007 |
Dr. Joanne Hughes Clark |
Talking about "What Do Exploding Stars Tell Us About Our Universe and Ourselves?" |
| Sep 22nd 2007 |
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‘The Universe – An amazing journey from the Sun to the most distant galaxies’. It is a very good modern
pictorial tour of everything from the solar system, out to most of the best and most interesting objects seen through telescopes, with very lucid
explanations of what is now known about them using recent images from HST, SOHO, Trace, and other ‘Great Observatory’ orbiting telescopes.
Also includes a bonus program with explanation of Dark Energy and the accelerating expansion of the universe by Dr. Alex Filippenko from UC Berkeley. |
| Aug 25th 2007 |
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‘The Death of a Star’, and will have star party slides from Mark Folkerts from ALCON, Shingletown and Mt. Bachelor star parties.
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| Jul 25th 2007 |
Sonny Tremoulet |
Discussing recent amateur telescope making projects. |
| Jun 16th 2007 |
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The Timothy Ferris documentary on ‘Life Beyond Earth’ -- about origins of life on Earth, the planets and moons
of the solar system, and the search for possible homes for life beyond that -- produced by KCTS in Seattle. |
| May 12th 2007 |
Dr. Don Brownlee |
From UW Astronomy, Principle Investigator of the Stardust mission. He will be giving an update on the Stardust
mission to Comet Wild 2 (‘vilt 2’), and results obtained from studying the particles captured and returned to Earth from the mission.
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| Apr 14th 2007 |
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Spectacular presentation of the Cassini mission to Saturn, called ‘Ring World 2’, narrated by John Billingsley,
in a high-quality production recently released from NASA JPL, with limited distribution to selected astronomy organizations, traces the course
of the mission and scientific and imaging results so far. |
| Mar 24th 2007 |
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Comet Impact – The Deep Impact comet collision mission. |
| Feb 17th 2007 |
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‘Hubble – 15 years of Discovery’ – the full official ESA documentary of the Hubble Space Telescope mission and
its amazing images and discoveries, during 15 since it was launched. Includes – The Hubble Story, Planetary Tales, The Lives of Stars, Cosmic
Collisions, Monsters in Space, Gravitational Illusions, and The Birth and Death of the Universe. |
| Jan 27th 2007 |
Toby Smith |
Solar System Cinema |
| Dec 16th 2006 |
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Holiday Dinner Meeting – Alfy’s on Broadway in Everett – 7:00 PM |
| Nov 14th 2006 |
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“The Astronomers: Percival Lowell” – The legacy of Percival Lowell and the Lowell Observatory for the study
of planetary astronomy – Mars, Pluto, extrasolar planets, Earth-crossing asteroids by astronomers including Lowell, Claude Tombaugh, and Gene
and Carolyn Shoemaker. |
| Oct 21st 2006 |
Jim Bielaga |
'Observing Off The Beaten Path' - great objects for observing, especially if you have looked at popular ones
like M-13, M-57, and M-42 so many times you want to find some new and interesting objects to explore, and have asked yourself 'what else should
I look at now..'. There are lots of great things to see in the sky year around, great galaxies in the fall, great clusters and nebulae in the
winter, and all sorts of combinations. Jim has a great depth of knowledge of these deep-sky objects; almost everyone will learn about some new
ones from his presentation. |
| Sep 23rd 2006 |
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"Origins – part III – Where are the aliens?" Mini-series with Neil Degrasse-Tyson. |
| Aug 16th 2006 |
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"Searching for Super Stars" – about a group of professional and an amateur astronomer searching for supernovae,
colliding stars, and black holes - and trying to determine the age and expansion of the universe |
| Jul 12th 2006 |
Carlton Rhoades |
Near Earth Asteroids – Risks, and strategies for addressing them |
| Jun 17th 2006 |
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‘Explore The Invisible Universe’ – slide and video materials from Night Sky Network, that were presented by
NASA’s Dr. Michelle Thaller. |
| May 27th 2006 |
EAS president Mark Folkerts |
‘Amateur Astronomy - Star Party Sights’ – by EAS president Mark Folkerts - An all new detailed visual tour of
summer star parties, including Table Mountain, Oregon Star Party, and Camp Delaney, with solar and daytime scenes, night sky shots, tour of objects
in the night sky, all as really seen by amateur astronomers, not the enhanced color mega pictures from Hubble. What to expect, and what you will
actually see. Even includes some 3D star party views… |
| Apr 29th 2006 |
EAS president Mark Folkerts |
‘The Close Pass by Comet 73P-Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and Spring Observing Targets’ |
| Mar 25th 2006 |
Victor Debattista, the Brooks Fellow at University of Washington Astronomy department |
Supercomputer-based modeling of Barred Spiral Galaxies |
| Mar 4th 2006 |
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“Stephan Hawking Universe – On the Dark Side” |
| Jan 28th 2006 |
Oliver Fraser of UW Astronomy |
Studying the changing period of a Pulsating White Dwarf Star |
| Dec 10th 2005 |
Keith Allred |
Holiday Dinner Meeting with CCD Imaging presentation by Keith Allred – Alfy’s on Broadway in Everett – 7:00
PM |
| Nov 19th 2005 |
Curtis Snow |
Mars Society ‘Changes in perspective / "discoveries" from our recent exploration of Mars’ |
| Oct 29th 2005 |
Dr. Paula Szkody, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington |
Cataclysmic Variables: Insights from HST, FUSE, Chandra and SDSS |
| Sep 24th 2005 |
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Speaker not yet confirmed |
| Aug 23rd 2005 |
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Program will be ‘Destination Mars’, an in-depth look at the science and logistics of a first manned mission
to the Red Planet. (Mars is looming brighter in the evening sky as it approaches opposition at Halloween) |
| Jul 30th 2005 |
Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
Origins, pt. 2 |
| Jun 26th 2005 |
Jim ‘Moondog’Tegerdine |
Amateur CCD imaging |
| May 21st 2005 |
Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
Origins – 14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution’ |
| Apr 30th 2005 |
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Dramatic visualizations from ‘Atlas of the Sky’ |
| Mar 19th 2005 |
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The presentation was the documentary "If We Had No Moon" along with information about Project Astro-Bio 2005.
We also reviewed Night Sky Network materials for Astronomy Day. |
| Feb 19th 2005 |
Jim Bachesta |
His activity in working cooperatively with a local park to promote astronomy and establish an astronomy-friendly
neighborhood park – the PLUTO group. |
| Jan 29th 2005 |
Film |
"Unfolding Universe" |
| Dec 11th 2004 |
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Holiday Dinner Meeting – Alfy’s on Broadway in Everett – 7:00 PM |
| Nov 20th 2004 |
Film |
"Unfolding Universe" |
| Oct 30th 2004 |
Film |
The Privileged Planet |
| Sep 25th 2004 |
Greg Donahue, Celestial North |
The Mars Exploration Rover(s) mission |
| Aug 28th 2004 |
Dr. Julie Lutz – UW Astronomy Dept. |
Solar Cookies and Comets on a Stick |
| Jul 31st 2004 |
Bill Cook |
Captain’s on Optics |
| Jun 26th 2004 |
Eric Algol – UW Astronomy Dept. |
T Tauri Star |
| May 22nd 2004 |
Jonathan Fay |
Building his ‘Littlebear’ observatory in Redmond |
| Apr 17th 2004 |
Vincent Woolf |
Helium Stars |
| Mar 27th 2004 |
Connie Rockosi – UW Astronomy Dept. |
Gave a presentation on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope and 5 color CCD camera array that is used to take
dusk-to-dawn strip ‘drift-scan’ images of the sky. These images are being used to survey the sky to provide photometric and positional info on
objects, including the over 1 million galaxies that have their red-shifts captured with the fiber-optic fed spectrographs on the same telescope,
and used to plot a 3-dimensional galaxy map of the surrounding universe. |
| Feb 28th 2004 |
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Biography presentation on the life of planetary scientist and science popularizer Carl Sagan, who was involved
in the Viking missions to Mars, the Voyager missions to the outer planets, co-wrote and produced the highly influential Cosmos television series,
and co-wrote the book Contact and other works, of non-fiction. |
| Jan 31st 2004 |
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Update on the status of the two Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, with video of their development and journey
to Mars, and images from the landing sites. |
| Dec 13th 2003 |
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Holiday Dinner Meeting – Alfy’s on Broadway in Everett – 7:00 PM |
| Nov 22nd 2003 |
Meteorite Collector Adam Hupe |
Adam Hupe and his brother brought a number of special meteorites, showed them, and discussed and described
some of the stories that went with tracking them down. Included were lunar, and Mars meteorites, and a meteorite that struck a house in New Jersey. |
| Oct 25th 2003 |
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Presentation on the SOHO spacecraft and part 4 of Stephan Hawking’s Universe |
| Sep 20th 2003 |
Keith Allred – SAS |
Astro Imaging |
| Aug 23rd 2003 |
local (Stanwood) builders |
New line of commercial dobsonian telescope kits (6”-12.5”) with some innovative features – E2 Telescope Design
- http://www.e2scopes.com |
| Jul 19th 2003 |
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Part II of Stephan Hawking’s Universe movie |
| Jun 28th 2003 |
Dr. Joanne Clark – EvCC |
History of globular clusters and the formation of the Milky Way |
| May 31st 2003 |
Dr. Tom Quinn - UW Astronomy Dept. |
Rapid Gas Giant Formation |
| Apr 26th 2003 |
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The Stephen Hawking’s Universe movie requested by club |
| Mar 29th 2003 |
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Video was shown, door prizes went to Ken Ward and to Judy Ward ! |
| Feb 22nd 2003 |
Don Dillinger |
Amateur CCD Science |
| Jan 25th 2003 |
Tom Robinette, BEAS Vice-President |
Observing the Planets |
| Dec 7th 2002 |
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Holiday Party at Alfy's on Broadway. 7pm - 8:30pm |
| Nov 23th 2002 |
Dr. Paul Hodge |
Higher Than Everest |
| Oct 26th 2002 |
Kristine Washburn (UW) |
Neutrino Astronomy |
| Sep 28th 2002 |
Chris Laws (UW) |
More than a Pretty Face: the Continuing Critical Importance of
Astronomy |
| Aug 24th 2002 |
Sonny Tremoulet |
Building a 16 mirror and Dobsonian telescope as a mouse for a laptop PC |
| Jul 27th 2002 |
Pat Lewis and Joanne Green |
Lunar Astronomy – Observing Features on the Moon |
| Jun 29th 2002 |
Dr. Monika Kress – UW |
Formation of the Earth and Habitable Planets |
| May 18th 2002 |
Mark Folkerts |
Spring Sky observing and preparation, and a video program – an episode from BBC ‘The Planets’. |
| Apr 27th 2002 |
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Video: 'Solar Empire - Ancient astronomical beliefs and observatories' |
| Apr 19-20th 2002 |
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International Astronomy Day activities. Star parties Friday and Saturday at Harborview park (weather permitting)
and EAS will be at the library Saturday 10 – 4:30. |
| Mar 30th 2002 |
Thomas Murphy – UW |
Apollo project for measuring the distance to the moon to millimeter accuracy |
| Feb 23rd 2002 |
Dr. Tom Quinn – UW |
Planet formation/Extrasolar Planets |
| Jan 26th 2002 |
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Meeting canceled due to snowy conditions |
| Dec 8th 2001 |
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Holiday Party on Dec 8th 7pm - 10pm at Alfy's on Broadway. |
| Nov 17th 2001 |
Dani DiPietro (Overlake School) |
Observatory Trip Report |
| Oct 27th 2001 |
Brad Snowder (WWU) |
Native American Star Lore |
| Sep 29th 2001 |
Andrew West |
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| Aug 25th 2001 |
Dr. Christopher Stubbs – UW |
A proposed new large-aperture wide-field telescope called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
| Jul 28th 2001 |
Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez – UW |
Mining the Earth's Attic (looking for Terran biologic meteoritic material on the moon) |
| Jun 30th 2001 |
Dr. Julie Lutz – NASA Spacegrant Center at
UW |
Solar Max |
| May 19th 2001 |
Cody Gibson & Mark Folkerts |
The new website and a video. |
| Apr 28th 2001 |
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International Astronomy Day activities instead of regular meeting. Star parties Friday
and Saturday at Harborview park (weather permitting) and EAS will be at the library Saturday 10 – 4:30. |
| Apr 21st 2001 |
Bill O’Neil |
Visits to Radiotelescope arrays |
| Mar 31st 2001 |
Keith Allred – SAS |
Introduction to Astrophotography |
| Feb 24th 2001 |
Dr. Stacey Palen – UW Astronomy Dept. |
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| Jan 28th 2001 |
Bruce Weertman |
Dark Skies Northwest – IDA and light pollution |
| Dec 16th 2000 |
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Holiday Party – Alfy’s 7:00 PM |
| Nov 18th 2000 |
Richard Just – WACO |
Constellation Mythology |
| Oct 28th 2000 |
Vandana Desai – UW |
Clustering of Galaxies |
| Sep 30th 2000 |
John Armstrong – UW |
Water On Mars? Future Exploration |
| Aug 26th 2000 |
Henry Schnackenberg – EAS |
Telescope Making |
| Jul 22nd 2000 |
Kevin Krisciunas – UW |
Type 1A Supernovae |
| Jun 24th 2000 |
Dr. Julianne Dalcanton – UW |
Dwarf Galaxies |
| May 20th 2000 |
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Empire of the Sun |
| Apr 29th 2000 |
Dr. Paul Hodge – UW |
Exploring Barnard’s Galaxy with HST |
| Apr 8th 2000 |
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ASTRONOMY DAY 10:00 to 5:30 at Everett Public library. Star Party at Legion Park at dusk on April 7th and 8th. |
| Mar 25th 2000 |
Dr. Karen Peterson |
Project Astro |
| Feb 26th 2000 |
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Video - Solar Empire |
| Jan 22nd 2000 |
Mark Folkerts |
Astronomy Software Update |
| Dec 11 99 |
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Holiday Banquet |
| Nov 20 99 |
John Rudolph |
Archeoastronomy |
| Oct 30 99 |
Jim Bielaga |
1999 US Star party tour |
| Sep 25 99 |
Andrew Vanture – EVCC |
Chemical composition of stars |
| Aug 28 99 |
Tony Irving – UW Geology |
Washington Meteorites, also Battle Pt. observatory update |
| Jul 31 99 |
Dr. Stacey Palen – UW Astronomy |
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| Jun 26 99 |
David Malin |
The man who colors stars' video |
| May 22 99 |
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* Astronomy Day * No regular meeting |
| Apr 24 99 |
Eric Deutch – UW |
Visible Components of X-ray binary Star Systems |
| Mar 27 99 |
Cathy Olkin – Lowell Obs./MIT |
Occultation's of solar-system objects |
| Feb 27 99 |
Eric Deutch |
(rescheduled to April mtg.) |
| Jan 30 99 |
Mark Folkerts |
Computer Astronomy |
