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

Eastside Astronomical Society

EAS Meeting - Tues. May 29, 7:OOpm. Lake Hills Library:
Secrets of the Sun
It contains 99.9% of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggering 27 million degrees F. It convulses, blazes and sings. You know it as the Sun. Scientists know it as one of the most amazing physics labs in the universe. With the help of new spacecraft and telescopes, scientists are seeing the Sun as they never have before and even recreating what happens at its very center in labs here on Earth. Their work will help us understand aspects of the Sun that have puzzled scientists for decades. More critically, it may help us predict solar storms that could zap our power grid and ground global air travel for days, weeks or longer. Such storms have happened, but not in the modern era. It is hoped that our new understanding will keep our planet from going dark.
Pres. Tom Gwilym will have the latest news from recent exciting events in the skies, and good advice on more to come.
The book drawing will be for Practical Skywatching, edited by Dr. David Levy and Dr. John O'Byrne.
The following meeting will be on Monday, June 25th at Lake Hills Library. There'll be refreshments.
| Lake Hills Library Directions |

Seattle Astronomy Blog:
Greg Scheiderer writes a very informative blog site about local Astronomy events and happenings in the Seattle area. He is also an EAS member. He can almost always be found at the Museum of Flight events and lectures taking notes and asking questions. So be sure to add his blog to your Astronomy reading list. Like most blog sites, you can even set up an RSS feed to keep up on the latest entries.

He also has started a calender on the site, and he'll have a lot of good info about just about everything astronomy related on that. All local clubs, museums, and star parties.

| Seattle Astronomy |
| Astronomy Calender |

Don't forget our blog site! Remember, EAS does have a blog site with a lot of the latest space, astronomy, some aviation, and whatever else looks good to share. President Tom Gwilym writes the blog and usually has a new entry or two every week, depending on what is going on that looks interesting. The blog is very easy to update, so there is more new goodies to read there than on the main EAS site (this one you are looking at) so make sure to check that out now and then or you can even set up an RSS feed when something new is posted.
| Eastside Astro-Blog |

Looking down rather than up: Seems that this summer hasn't been good for viewing the sky, and this fall has been pretty challenging also for that matter.
Sometimes it's fun to look the other direction and look down at the Earth. There is a site that shows very high resolution images of the Earth and your home area should be updated once a day. The MODIS satellite images the entire country each day, so on a good day you can look down and see your city. On a bad day, you can look down and see the tops of the clouds that delivered the rain and hid the night sky. The images from this site are really fantastic, and you can download them in different resolutions.
Give it a try.

| Daily view showing the Seattle area |