Eastside Astronomical Society: promoting interest in astronomy to Seattle's eastside community

Eastside Astronomical Society

Deception Pass Star Party - Bowman Bay - Aug. 6 - 7 : The date has been set finally. We will have our yearly gathering at Bowman Bay on the weekend of August 6 and 7. Two nights of telescope viewing and camping with members of the local astronomy clubs. There will also be an evening lecture at sunset both nights on the basics of astronomy. Usually, we have about 10 - 15 telescopes out for viewing after.
This is the weekend before the Table Mountain Star Party, so it's a chance to make sure everything works before the trip up the mountain the next weekend.

If interested in coming, please send and email (click here) and let us know how many are coming. More information will be posted later. | Information about Bowman Bay |

Bring the shuttle to Seattle: Shuttle Atlantis has just completed it's final flight (unless there is a strong need for one more supply trip the the ISS). If Atlantis is done, she will be up for grabs to the museum that can prove worthy of a nest for the 2 retired birds (Discovery is already claimed by the Smithsonian, and Enterprise is now up for grabs too). The qualifying museum has to have a great education program, easy access for lots of people, and most of all a place to display the spacecraft where it will be well protected and meet a bunch of other requirements. Also, the museum must come up with a $28 million fee for preparation, shipping and handling.
Seattle's Museum of Flight is probably very high on the list, plus we have a 10,000 foot runway for easy delivery! The museum is asking for your support, simply sign your name on the petition to get a shuttle. Help make this view come true (click here to see full image).

| Click here to show your support for Seattle's shuttle |

EAS Student Blog: EAS board member, Tommy Kraft, is a senior in high school this year. He is doing his senior project on Astronomy (good choice!) and he will be writing a student blog for the club over the next few months. He'll be focusing on the government and the private sector of space travel and exploration.
So be sure to sign up on his blog as a follower and give him support for his project. So, EAS will now have 2 active blog sites. Our main blog site is fairly broad and covers Astronomy, from Earth and space as well as a lot of manned and unmanned exploration with an occasional Earth based science topic tossed in there.
The blogs are updated several times a week, so check them out for current events and happenings in the skies.

| EAS Astro-Blog - Tom Gwilym |
| The EAS Student Blog - Tommy Kraft |