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That’s a Wrap! North Carolina Statewide Star Party 2025

Once again The Forsyth Astronomical Society participated in the North Carolina Statewide Star Party over…
Venus: Evening to Morning Star

On March 22, the planet Venus shifted from being an evening star to a morning…
Titan

FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 3. The outer Solar System covers a vast distance…
Spring into Spring

Yes folks, it is spring! Technically, we reached the vernal equinox on Thursday March 20…
That’s a wrap! The March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse

The March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse has come and gone. Here are photos (and one…
Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day everyone! Here is an astronomy blog we wrote a few years ago…
New Moons for the Solar System

It is very difficult to keep up with the number of moons in our Solar…
That’s a wrap! A night of observing the stars at Pilot Mountain (February 28, 2025)

Finally, the clouds cleared and the weather held steady. We made it up to Pilot…
SPHEREx

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (aka…
A Total Lunar Eclipse (March 13-14)

On the evening of March 13-14, there will be a total eclipse of the Moon.…