Membership Meetup
Wed, Apr 15
|Theodor Jacobsen Observatory (OBS)
Club members meet to share stories, learn new techniques, and hear from guest speakers.
Time & Location
Apr 15, 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.
This month:
"Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from Earth near the constellation Pupis. It was a stable “main sequence” star, much like our sun, which meant that it should emit steady, predictable light. Yet this star began to flicker wildly."
(text credit: UW News: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/03/11/uw-astronomers-spot-planet-collision-evidence/
Please join us for the rest of the story on this fascinating subject.
