Rubin Telescope and DiRAC - October General Meeting

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

Please join us on Zoom for a review of the biggest space science events of 2022….from Artemis, to DART to JWST and beyond. We will also look ahead to the action packed 2023 calendar of exploration. Long time SAS member, NASA Solar System Ambassador, former Director of the Pacific Science Center Planetarium, and now Education Specialist for Digitalis Education Solutions, Dave Cuomo will lead us through this tour. Every ... more

Join us at UW to connect in person or join us online! Title: Celebrating Apollo 17's 50th Anniversary Abstract: 50 years ago this month Apollo 17 was on the moon from December 7 - 19, 1972. This was the last time humans were there. We would like to take this time to review and remember this amazing program, and the last humans on the lunar surface. For those of us who were watching live, let’s share our memories: throwing a hammer on the moon, driving a car, singing Christmas ... more