....Oakland,
California - Stargazing since 1924
Upcoming
Event:
EAS
General Meeting
Date
and Time:
Sat, Feb 14
7:30 pm
Location:
Chabot
Space &
Science Center
Galileo Rm
2nd Floor Spees Bldg
Chabot Space & Science Center
Speaker:
Astronomer
Brad E. Tucker, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley
Subject:
Exploding
Stars, Dark Energy, and the End of the Universe
Dinner
with the Speaker
Meet
and chat with the speakers before the meeting! Hunan Yuan Chinese Restaurant,
4100 Redwood Rd, 5:30pm. No need to register - just show up!
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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 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 We're FAMOUS! and Members Don Saito and Rich Ozer are in a video clip about sidewalk astronomy at the Exploratorium website. Eastbay
Astronomical Society 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 What's Up
page updated for the new month and New Year 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
EAS Loaner
Scope Program 60mm & 80mm refractors, C90 Maksutov-Cassegrain,
2 - 10 inch Dobsonians, Scope rental is $15 a month with
a $50 deposit. For information, contact Barry Leska by E-mail at b.leska@comcast.net EAS Library Hours 3:00pm to 7:00pm every Friday & 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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