Membership Meetup
Wed, Mar 18
|Theodor Jacobsen Observatory (OBS)
Club members meet to share stories, learn new techniques, and hear from guest speakers.
Time & Location
Mar 18, 2026, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Theodor Jacobsen Observatory (OBS), 4324 Memorial Way Northeast, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Guests
About the Event
The club members get together every month to chat, learn about upcoming events, and listen to a guest astronomer give a talk. There is a new members orientation starting at 6:30pm while the rest of the members get caught up with friends. At 7pm the president gives a presentation about what the club is doing. The guest speaker starts at 7:30pm. Snacks and drinks are served.
This month: Rubin’s LSST: The Greatest Movie of All Time
Guest Speaker: UW Professor Zeljko Ivezic.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the most comprehensive optical astronomical sky survey ever undertaken, will obtain panoramic images of the night sky every clear night for ten years, starting this year. The resulting tens of petabytes of imaging data, essentially a digital color movie of the night sky, will include about 20 billion galaxies and a similar number of stars, an…