FAS Monthly Meeting

  • May 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday May 8th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for this month’s meeting will be given by Dr. Brad Barlow, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at High Point University, titled: “Exploring the Impact of Substellar Objects on Late Stellar Evolution.” A description of this…

  • April 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday April 10th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for the FAS April meeting will be given by club member Steve Childers, titled: Johannes Kepler and the Intersection of Astronomy, Religion and Witchcraft. The German astronomer Johannes Kepler is best known for discovering that the planets orbit…

  • March 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday March 13th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for the FAS March meeting is an episode of The Sky at Night that visits the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia. This observatory houses an experiment jointly developed by Arizona State University and MIT called…

  • February 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday January 9th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for this month’s meeting will be a video and discussion on an episode from The Sky at Night series entitled: “Telescope on a Plane!” This telescope, called SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a…

  • January 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday January 9th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for this month’s meeting is by FAS member Bruce Gavett and is entitled: It’s all about PLUTO (and a bit about Charon) (and don’t forget Ultima Thule!) Join us for the exploration of everyone’s…

  • FAS Calendar of Events – 2019 posted; December 2018 FAS Meeting

    Another year has passed and we here at the FAS would like to thank everyone that came out to any of our events this past year. With the weather being as it has been, we have had more cancellations this past year than any in recent memory. The public’s enthusiasm when the weather cooperated was…

  • November 2018 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday November 14th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the program for the FAS November meeting is a documentary video entitled Earthrise, by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. This film combines archival footage and current-day interviews with the Apollo…

  • October 2018 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday October 10th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. This month’s program we will be a presentation by Jonathan Ward, a NASA Solar System Ambassador from Greensboro. His talk is entitled “Spaced Out in Tucson: A virtual visit to Kitt Peak Observatory and the OSIRIS-REx control…

  • September 2018 FAS Meeting

      Wednesday September 12th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have it’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting for September. For this month’s program we will be watching and discussing an episode of the BBC’s The Sky at Night entitled “The Mystery of  ‘Oumuamua” , the first known interstellar object to pass through the…