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Stellarvue Southeast Star Party
The second annual Stellarvue Southeast Star Party (S3P) - May 14-15, 2010
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Free Public Lecture
Cassini’s Exploration of Enceladus, Saturn’s Active Icy Moon
A Free Public Lecture by University of Virginia Astronomer, Dr. Anne Verbiscer
Friday, 7 May, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Sears Applied Technologies Center, GTCC, Jamestown Cline Observatory will be open for viewing after the talk, weather permitting
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Stone Mt State Park
Public Observation 8 May 2010
This outing has been a lot of fun, the campers show great interest in astronomy and provide feedback that you can feel good about, so drive on up, setup, and have some fun. This should be a great night for viewing!
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Special Notice
Hello Steven, my name is Darrell Richardson I am the maintenance supervisor
at Stone Mtn. State Park. I understand you will be having a program in the
campground this weekend. I will need your co-operation in helping us to
maintain our sewer field. We had to spend several hundred dollars to repair
the sewer field this past winter partly due to the system not working
correctly creating a problem with surfacing fluids and partially due to
vehicle traffic on the sewer field itself. I would greatly appreciate it if
you will help by keeping vehicles out of the area below the cement exposed
dosing tank. Any traffic below this area can and has damaged our tail lines.
I appreciate your help in keeping vehicles out of this area. I hope the
weather is good for your program. This will need to be adhered to from now
on into the future. Thanks again, Darrell Richardson MMIV Stone Mountain
State Park
Hi FAS: Since a telescope is not required to observe clouds, the event April 24th is officially CANCELED. Some day, I fully expect to have good weather for an observation at the museum. Don
Anyone up for a road trip to Town Creek Indian Mound Astronomy Night on April 10, 2010, this could be a fun outing for the club? Send RSVP to fas@fas37.org we will keep and list, or post to the Observation Linkup area.
- Flat Rock School April 9, 2010 - Outreach, click for more information.
2010 Piedmont Earth Day Fair
April 17, 2010
Help is needed in the booth, there should be at least one solar scope. This is great exposures for the club, come on out, visit the booth, look around, and help.
Boy Scouts - We have been asked to take part in the adult training for the boy scouts, Old Hickory Council. They have asked if we could set up a display in the midway and talk to the scout leaders about astronomy. The event is Saturday March 6, at the Bethania Moravian Church, 5582 Main Street, Bethania. There 4 classes scheduled for the adults, and they will be visiting our booth between classes, and during lunch. I will be able to go, and would like to have a couple of others join me. let me know if you are interested. Don
Special Events
- Science Night at Cash Elementary in Kernersville - February 25 (Click for Details)
Special Events Information - Information about upcoming special events. Calander
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Help Needed! - We have been asked to help Cash Elementary in Kernersville, with a science night program on February 25. They are asking us to set up a table indoors, and some telescopes outside. The program will be held from 6 till 7:30. Should be several nice things to show the kids around that time. As more details become available, I will pass them along. Thanks in advance Don
Science Night at Cash Elementary in Kernersville - February 25 (Click for Details)
Help Needed! </fons> - We have been asked to help Cash Elementary in Kernersville, with a science night program on February 25. They are asking us to set up a table indoors, and some telescopes outside. The program will be held from 6 till 7:30. Should be several nice things to show the kids around that time. As more details become available, I will pass them along. Thanks in advance Don
- Steve Childers presenting “The Messier List and Messier Marathons.” - 
New Pre-Meeting at 6:30PM all are invited to this informal get together - subject this month Planisphere – What are they, how to use them, different types and vendors. Bring in your favorite Planisphere and share with other.
- FYI From Priscilla - An interesting fact I came across...the quartz used for the pyrex mirror of Mt. Palomar was mined near Penland in the NC mountains. See more here
- Tips for Viewing the Geminid Meteor Shower – This year the Geminid meteor shower’s peak is the night of December 13th-14th, 2009.
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- Leonids Meteor shower is active Nov. 10 - 23 and peaks on the 16th and 17th.
Great Turn Out!
- Stone Mountain State Park, NC - Done, the sky cleared and the night was a success.
- Pilot Mt State Park, NC - This should be a great event!
- And Much More!!
- Jupiter moons disappear for 2 hours tonight!- Sept. 2, 2009 - As reported by Buddy on the FAS Forum BBS! Check out his post of what he saw!!!!!
- Stone Mt. Observation Report - August 15th 2009
- Red giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking - The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.
Special Notice
The club meeting day has changed to the fourth Tuesday of the month.
- Perseids Meteor Shower - with a peak around the evening August 12th, and morning of August 13th. Perseids 2009: visual data quicklook
Hi FAS:
Can you believe that we will actually have weather good enough to pull off an observation! It may not be perfect, but it looks the best it has in a long while, so the observation will go on as scheduled. I plan on getting there around 7 or so , and I hope to see you there. I have contacted all 3 local TV stations, but that is no guarantee they will mention it , but if they do, we could have a large turn out. There was also a notice posted in the library about the event, giving us even more exposure.
Hope to see you this evening!
Don
- The next FAS meeting will feature a planetarium show called StarDate: Ancient Horizons. This presents the ancient Egyptian view of the cosmos, with information on mythology and constellations, and the creation of a calendar. This will be followed by a summer sky tour by Justin Nichols of SciWorks.
- FYI - “Jupiter and Neptune will be at there closest to each other on May 26—just 0.4 degrees apart. It’s interesting that on this anniversary year for Galileo that he was actually the first person to observe Neptune. It was in the same field of view as Jupiter in his telescope just as it will be for us this May. He made a note of it but never realized that he was looking at another planet.” - Buddy
| Public Observation has been canceled but Other Events will take place inside. (Click for more information) |
- Stellarvue Southeast Star Party - April 24-25, 2009
- Club Observation Tonight - April 25th come on out and enjoy the fun and clear sky!!!
A few Upcoming Events - please check the Events Calendar for a detailed list of club and local events!
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- Earth Day - Fair will be held on Saturday, April 18 on the campus of Wake Forest University. FAS will have a booth, stop by, check it out and say hello! click for more information!
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Help Needed Contact - Priscilla Ivester - Booth 82
- 400 Years of the Telescope - Presented By The Greensboro Astronomy Club April 17th
| The public came out and took part - see photos - Hundreds of people looked into the night sky! April 4th 2009 - At Barnes and Nobel in Winston-Salem, NC |
- Full Worm Moon - March 10th
- IYA 100 Hour Of Astronomy - April 2-5th
Black holes 'preceded galaxies'
Our Galaxy Is Bigger Than Once Thought
Other Done Stuff
Spend a night with a great sight! —> “Place of fear!”
