Upcoming Events

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Most of our events happen at the Chabot Space and Science Center. Get directions here.

Next General Meeting – WE’RE BACK AT CHABOT!!

(Note that this meeting will be hybrid, in-person and on zoom/facebook. Our speaker will join us IN PERSON in Classroom 3 & 4 / Kepler-Copernicus), as well as in our on-line meeting.

Meeting will be held at the Chabot Space and Science Center Classroom 4 (the Room formerly known as Copernicus). Please enter through the side gate along the back road of the facility.

Dr. Wallace’s talk with discuss the fantasy of human hibernation, what are the different types of hibernation, what are the proposed mechanisms of hibernation, and why humans are biologically and physiologically unlikely to tolerate hibernation. This discussion will review how anesthesia is fundamentally different from hibernation with separate risks and complications that fundamentally limit it as a model of hibernation. The risks of anesthesia will be discussed as well as the approaches we use to mitigate those risks. Speculation on the implications of the differences between living and dead organisms and tissue will provide a foundation for a discussion of what may be fundamental to living organisms.

About the Speaker

Dr. Art Wallace, M.D. , Ph.D. will discuss the differences between hibernation and anesthesia and why Human Hibernation is a fantasy for spaceflight at present. Dr Wallace is a professor of anesthesiology and perioperative care at the University of California San Francisco, the Chief of Anesthesia at the San Francisco VA Medical center, a cardiac anesthesiologist, a biomedical engineer, clinical informaticist. His research involves perioperative cardiac risk reduction. He is best known for his work developing perioperative beta blockade, perioperative alpha-2 agonists, ECOM (Endotracheal Cardiac Output Monitor), the off-pump CABG, audiovisual distraction, and AVD-M a machine vision based remote patient monitor. He has done multiple clinical and animal trials for drug and device design, big data epidemiology for drug development and quality improvement, and software development.

Telescope Makers’ Workshop

The Telescope Maker’s Workshop is one of few regularly scheduled such workshops in the world! Every Friday from 7 to 10 PM, amateur telescope makers from the bay area meet at the Chabot Space & Science Center and learn how to grind, shape, polish, and figure mirrors for reflecting telescopes, under the guidance of EAS volunteers. The workshop is free; participants pay only for the mirror blanks and grinding tools, which generally cost between $100-$300, depending on the size of the mirror. All the instruction, grinding grit, testing equipment, and camaraderie is free of charge! For more information, email Richard Ozer at pres@eastbayastro.org, or come by the workshop any Friday to see what it’s all about.

Outreach

In person events are more limited because of COVID, but are being scheduled for schools and other community institutions. Contact us also for possible virtual events, or visit http://www.chabotspace.org for scheduled public virtual telescope viewing events]

EAS sends volunteers to schools, libraries, and anywhere curious aspiring astronomers gather. EAS volunteers bring their own equipment or borrow telescopes. Students, parents, and teachers are always thrilled to look through the telescopes and ask questions. You’ll meet all sorts of interesting people and provide a unique and inspiring experience to kids and parents who may have never looked through a telescope before. Find our next event on the calendar above.

Inquire about and request visits by e-mailing EAS Outreach Coordinator Raymond Howard at outreach@eastbayastro.org. Visit our outreach page to find out about upcoming events.

Members Only Viewing Nights (MOVN)

[In person events are more limited than in the past because of COVID, visit http://www.chabotspace.org for virtual telescope viewing events]

Once a quarter, we schedule a Members Only Viewing Night at the Chabot Telescope Deck for both EAS and Chabot members. This is our opportunity to look through Chabot’s historic instruments and research telescope, as well as bring our own equipment to share in a more quiet venue. The schedule for MOVN will appear in the event calendar below.

Fall Calstar

Spring Calstar 2024 is scheduled for May 1 – May 5 at Lake San Antonio. For more information visit https://calstar.observers.org/

Header photo by EAS member Alan Roche.