December General Meeting

Title: Our Next Steps....Space Telescopes and Artificial Intelligence Please join us as we welcome back one of our most dynamic and interesting speakers. He will focus on space and Earth based telescopes, but as always Troy loves questions on just about anything astronomy. Always an entertaining experience. Speaker: Troy Carpenter **IN-PERSON AT THE UW or Zoom** Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation. It also provides ... more

Title: Vera C Rubin Telescope and DiRAC Presenting Prof Sarah Greenstreet - Affiliate Assistant Professor, UW. After “first light” - when the Vera C Rubin Telescope becomes operational in early 2025 - DiRAC scientists will use the data to understand our astronomical history, observe the present and predict the future, tracking and studying everything from protecting ourselves from near-Earth asteroids to the possibility of finding a Planet Nine lurking in the frozen ... more

Title: Space, Hope, and Charity - Movie Night! In person and on Zoom. Please RSVP using the "I will be attendiing" tab below near the bottom of this page. We have been offered a great opportunity for a special preview screening of an exciting new movie before it hits the theaters. Please join us for this special event hosted by the producers. This film is an independent documentary about Charity Woodrum, a young woman from rural Oregon whose dream of becoming an astrophysicist is ... more

Please RSVP at the bottom of the page "I plan to attend" Please join us for our last Summer Series out and about the greater Seattle area. For this last one, we will going back to one of our favorites, Bickersons Brewhouse in Ballard. (Zoom hybrid option available by logging in or emailing activities@seattleastro.org for link) We will start the evening with a ChatGPT generated trivia quiz. It's our chance to test our knowledge and see what ChatGPT just might generate.....including ... more

**Discussion portion of this event will be available via zoom from 7:30-8:30 PM by logging into your SAS account or emailing Keith** Please RSVP using the "I am attending" link below (must be logged in) or an email to activities@seattleastro.org Please join us for a journey to Antarctica and a shorter journey to Woodinville! We are excited to invite everyone to The Barn at The Farm in Woodinville for a traditional summer party with hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, salad, veggie ... more

*THIS IS EVENT IS at FULL CAPACITY Pat Terhune-Inverso, Senior Adjunct Professor, has graciously offered a private tour of the planetarium to SAS. (See more on Pat below). She will discuss the planetrium and her approach to teaching astronomy at the college level. We will also see the professionally produced full planetarium movie "STARS" which tells the story of how stars are born, how they die and how our understanding has changed over time. Dinner will be at 6pm at the ... more

**IN-PERSON AT THE UW or Zoom**. Please join us! Sujit Nair has studied and updated mid-transits for several exoplanets and wants to share his exciting work! He is a student at Stanford Online High School and lives in Redmond WA. He is a member of the Seattle Astronomical Society and an affiliate member of American Astronomical Society. His study on exoplanet mid transit times were accepted as poster sessions at AAS 240, AAS 241 & the upcoming AAS 242 conference. Sujit's exoplanet ... more

Zoom and In-person at UW Physics Building. Please join us for an evening with Dr. Adam Smercina, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Dr. Smercina's research includes how galaxies form and evolve, from the smallest dwarf galaxies to large galaxies like the Milky Way. Using gas content, resolved stellar populations, and satellite populations of galaxies roughly the size of our Milky Way to understand how they change over time, ... more

Zoom and In-person at UW Physics Building. Please join us for an evening with Dr. Adam Smercina, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Dr. Smercina's research includes how galaxies form and evolve, from the smallest dwarf galaxies to large galaxies like the Milky Way. Using gas content, resolved stellar populations, and satellite populations of galaxies roughly the size of our Milky Way to understand how they change over time, ... more

**IN-PERSON AT THE UW or Zoom** The James Webb Space Telescope Through an Astrophotographer's Eyes, Presented by Sabrina Minnick Many of us have seen the incredible images of NASA's JWST by now, but this month we'll have a chance to look at the exciting telescope from an astrophotographer's perspective. We'll touch on: - Optical design - Calibration, collimation, and artifacts - Field of View - Camera sensors, filters, and spectra - From data to images: "Are those the *real* ... more