The Eastbay
Astronomical Society
91st Annual Awards Dinner
Sunday, March 15
5:45pm - ~9pm
Kepler and Copernicus Rooms
2nd Floor, Dellums Bldg
Chabot Space & Science Center
It's
that time of year again, to honor our best and brightest, hear
the latest in astronomical research, and to just eat, drink
and be merry with our fellow amateur astronomers!
Our keynote speaker
is Dr. Imke de Pater, Professor of Astronomy at one of the finest
institutions of higher learning in the world, University of
California, Berkeley! The topic of her talk is entitled:
What
Wonderful Worlds: Exploring Our Solar System
Click here
to conveniently sign-up online via PayPal
or
Send check or money order to:
EAS Treasurer
PO Box 18635
Oakland, CA 94619-0635
The price is
still $35 per person. Please be sure to give us the names of
the attendees so we can have nametags ready for you and your
guests.
We will be using
our usual caterer (The Carvery, aka Harry's Hoffbrau)
Buffet Menu
Oven Roasted Turkey, Roast Beef & Ham
Served Hot and Carved to Order
Roated Red Potatoes
Steamed Vegetables
Spinach Lasagna
Garden Green Salad with assorted Dressing
Pesto Penne Pasta Salad
Three Bean Salad
Assorted Dinner Roll with Butter
Fresh Brewed Coffee
White 10" China Plates and Stainless Steel Flatware
Decorated Buffet and Beverage Table
Linen Napkin for each guest
See you
there!
BARCROFT 2015
The
sign-up period for this year's event is open.
Sign up early to
secure a spot!
For full info on
the Barcroft High Altitude Star Party, click here.
Wed Aug
12 - Mon Aug 17, 2015
(New moon on Fri Aug 14)
Newsletter
From White Mountain Research Station
Every
year, we rent time up at the Barcroft High Altitude Research Station
in the White Mountains to provide our members with an opportunity
to gain access to "research-grade" night skies. Well,
they have begun publishing their own newsletter, and you can view
it here.
It's full of info about the three facilities they make available,
one of which is Barcroft, and it's chock-full of interesting stuff
about these sites. Check it out!
We're FAMOUS, AGAIN!
EAS member Gerald
McKeegan got interviewed by radio talkshow host Gil Gross on 910AM
KKSF about the possibility of asteroid impacts and what we're
doing about it. Listen to the interview online here.
Big Astro
Events for 2014
Go
to our What's
Up link to see details for another total lunar eclipse,
and
a partial solar eclipse, both in the month of October!
We're FAMOUS!
Members Gerald McKeegan and Ken Swagerty were both
interviewed in an NBC TV
news clip on the total lunar
eclipse on Apr 15, 2014
and
Members Don Saito
and Rich Ozer are in a video
clip about sidewalk astronomy at the Exploratorium
website.
Eastbay
Astronomical Society
90th Annual Awards Dinner
Sunday, March 16, 2014
This year's event is now over.
We had a wonderful time, eating lots of great food, listening
to our keynote speaker Dr. Gibor
Basri, an EAS member, UC Berkeley professor, and Kepler
mission scientist who brought us up-to-date on the latest exoplanet
discoveries by NASA's Kepler mission, and we awarded our
Helen Pillans Awardee this year is
Steve Berl
for his tireless efforts to bring the club's industrial-quality
machine lathe back to full functionality.
What's Up
page updated for the new month and New Year
Check it out! (Click the What's Up
link to the upper-left.) There's all kinds of great info
about the month's lunar phases, where to look for the planets
throughout the year, upcoming meteor showers, and lunar conjunctions!
Cool new video advocating
dark skies
Take a look at this, and feel free to point
it out to as many others as possible, through newspaper editorials,
websites, emails, tweets, etc. Light pollution is harmful to the
natural balance of the world's eco-system. Seeing as we humans are
a part of that system, it would behoove us to make it right, so
Click
here.
Barcroft 2013
NOTE: The cutoff date for signing-up (Aug
20) has passed. Better luck next year! Just FYI: We got four people
who will stay the full 5 nights, two people who will stay two nights,
and two more people who will stay one night. We will have a feature
story on the event (hopefully) for the October 2013 issue of the
club newsletter, The Refractor. How nice!
Join us
now on Facebook
Thanks to the industriousness of new EAS
board member David Prosper, the EAS now has a presence on Facebook!
Check it out here.
What's Up
is updated
Check it out for a useful summary of 'what's
up' for the entire year, including the current month's lunar phases,
when the planets are visible, which meteor showers will be good
for the year, and when this year's new moons occur. Click
to it and check it out!
EAS Loaner
Scope Program
Telescopes available for rental by EAS members
60mm & 80mm refractors, C90 Maksutov-Cassegrain,
2 - 10 inch Dobsonians,
4 & 8 inch Schmidt-Cassegrains
Scope rental is $15 a month with
a $50 deposit.
If you rent a scope and bring it to EAS outreach programs,
monthly rent is waived - a good deal!
For information, contact Barry Leska
by E-mail at b.leska@comcast.net
EAS Library
Hours
3:00pm to 7:00pm every Friday &
Immediately after month EAS lecture meetings
Library is located on the second
floor of the Dellums Building, down the the hall next to the interactive
lunar lander exhibit.
Volunteer librarians are needed to
expand library hours, if you'd like to help, contact Don Saito
at donsaito@yahoo.com
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