Rubin Telescope and DiRAC - October General Meeting

**IN-PERSON / HYBRID MEETING** (In-Person Mars Viewing opportunity post meeting if weather permits) Please join us this month as we pick up some tips on how to best view the upcoming Mars 2022 opposition in December. Beginners and experienced astronomy lovers alike are welcome! Stephanie Pahl Anderson of Cloud Break Optics returns to help provide some best practices and expectation setting to view and possibly image the beauitful Red Planet through the telescope. Questions are ... more

**ZOOM ONLY THIS MONTH** Please join us online as we welcome Goldendale Observatory's Troy Carpenter! Troy will be going over a grab bag of fun and interesting topics in the world of space science including an Artemis recap, the successful DART impact, as well as providing the latest on solar viewing and the upgrades of Washington's own Goldendale Observatory. The curious welcome and questions are encouraged! Troy has been running the Goldendale Observatory for 9 years counting and ... more

In-Person at UW PAA A102 (Physics/Astronomy Auditorium) AND hybrid via Zoom Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago, Trojan asteroids orbit the Sun in two loose groups, with one group leading ahead of Jupiter in its path, the other trailing behind. Clustered around the two Lagrange points equidistant from the Sun and Jupiter, the Trojans are stabilized by the Sun and its largest planet in a gravitational balancing act. These primitive bodies hold ... 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. Please join us in-person for our second Summer Series meeting with, "Viewing & Imaging the Planets, Presented by Cloud Break Optics" located at Bickersons Brewhouse in Ballard. We'll be going over the when, how, and other good info to view and possibly image the planets through telescopes and what equipment ... 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. Please join us in-person (or hybrid) for our special summer series kick-off located at Chuck's Hop Shop in Seward Park! We'll take a closer look at the James Webb Space Telescope's first images and look to understand what we're looking at. NASA Solar System Ambassador Keith Krumm will be our guide through ... more

Please join us VIRTUAL ONLY for June as we welcome back NASA Solar System Ambassador Keith Krumm. Keith will provide an overview of Saturn's Moon Titan and share the latest on potential for life in the deep subsurface. We'll also touch on NASA's ambitious Dragonfly mission to Titan set for launch in 2026. In July and August we'll plan to meet in-person at an off-UW campus location. As always, our monthly general meetings are open to both SAS members and the public. We hope to see you ... 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. 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