SAS General Meeting

Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation. It also provides members a chance to engage and be in community with each other. This month we welcome UW Professor Jessica Werk who will present on Intergalactic Immigration. This meeting will be a hybrid meeting. If you like to join us in person. we meet on the campus of the University of Washington in the physics auditorium. We also have a online option over Zoom. As always, our ... more

Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation. It also provides members a chance to engage and be in community with each other. As always, our monthly general meetings are open to both SAS members and the public. We hope to see you online and/or in-person soon! Members log in for link at 7 PM. Public log in at 7:30 PM: Please request link at outreach@seattleastro.org Questions? outreach@seattleastro.org

Please join us either in-person, masks required, for the first time in over two years or online as we continue our hybrid option. Emily Levesque is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. Her work explores how the most massive stars in the universe evolve and die. She has observed for upwards of fifty nights on many of the planet’s largest telescopes and flown over the Antarctic stratosphere in an experimental aircraft for her research. Members log in for link ... more

We welcome Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics at Saint Martin's University. She will be speaking with atendees about her research on the stars near the center of the Milky Way and what that research can tell us about the formation of our galaxy. Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation via zoom. As always, our monthly general meetings are open to both SAS members and the public. We hope to see you online and/or ... more

Solar System Ambassador Dave Cuomo has been a planetarian and space science educator for 20 years. He has worked at museums, planetariums, and science centers. He currently works for Digitalis Education Solutions providing support and advice for planetariums around the globe. Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation. It also provides members a chance to engage and be in community with each other. TOPIC: Mars Exploration Update: ... more

Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation. It also provides members a chance to engage and be in community with each other. We normally meet on the campus of the University of Washington in the physics auditorium but are temporarily meeting over Zoom. We have a tentative plans for resuming in-person monthly gatherings in September pending regulations and safety. As always, our monthly general meetings are open to both SAS members ... more

SYNOPSIS: Keith Krumm was invited to teach Introduction to the Solar System and Space Science in three schools in Nairobi Kenya by the Watumull Family Children’s Fund, a local non-profit that supports schools in Africa and India. This presentation will provide an overview of his trip and teaching, and general information about Nairobi, Kenya. TOPIC: Astronomy Education & Public Outreach in Kenya Members log in for link at 6:30 PM. Public please request link at ... more

Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation. It also provides members a chance to engage and be in community with each other. We normally meet on the campus of the University of Washington in the physics auditorium but are temporarily meeting over Zoom. We have tentative plans for resuming in-person monthly gatherings in November, pending regulations and safety. As always, our monthly general meetings are open to both SAS members ... more

TOPIC: Exoplanets Sujay Nair a Senior at Stanford Online High School will describe the methods of exoplanet detection, discuss his research, and provide some examples of his projects that were published at major astronomical conferences. Members and guests are welcome to join us here at 6:30 PM for social time followed by the presentation at 6:50 PM. Questions? outreach@seattleastro.org

CONTEST JUDGE BY MARA LEITE | UK (Originally from Seattle) Mara Leite will describe her life path into astrophotography and will cover the problems of light pollution, the importance of, and opportunities presented by, astrophotography. She will describe how to use an astrophotography contest as a tool to help protect and restore vanishing dark skies and will cover how she personally endeavors to inspire the next generation of dark sky advocates and astronomers. Finally, Mara will ... more