FAS Monthly Meeting

  • September 2017 FAS Meeting – Show and Tell of Solar Eclipse

    The next meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be at Kaleideum North on Tuesday September 26th at 7:30 pm. This month’s program will be a show and tell format for members to share their media and experiences from last month’s solar eclipse. This will include images from our local events as well as those…

  • August 2017 FAS Meeting

    I hope everyone had the opportunity to safely enjoy the eclipse. From early reports of our planned events and from those members that went on their own personal excursions, everyone had a wonderful event. Our September meeting will be dedicated to sharing our experiences and any media collected. Our next monthly meeting will be on…

  • July 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on July 25th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program for this month is titled: The Eclipse: Science, History and Spirituality The presentation, by Roy Dorone, the society’s vice-president and associate professor of History at Winston-Salem State University, looks at some…

  • June 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on June 27th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program this month will be a video presentation on the history of the telescope. Following the presentation portion, we will have a brief business meeting and as always, there will be an…

  • May 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on May 23rd at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program this month will be by Joseph Holmes, a recent graduate of Guilford College, rising graduate student at Appalachian State University and long-time volunteer at GTCC’s Cline Observatory. Joseph will be speaking…

  • April 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on April 25th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The presentation for this month will be “Chasing Pluto” and in-depth, behind-the -scenes look at the New Horizons mission. Following the presentation portion we will have a brief business meeting and as always…

  • March 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on March 28th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The presentation for this month will be given by club VP Priscilla Ivester on obsolete constellations – “Constellations then and now”. Come join us for what surely will be an interesting topic. Following…

  • February 2017 FAS Meeting

    The next monthly meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be held on February 28th at 7:30 PM at Sciworks in Winston salem. The presentation for the evening will be a video review of a PBS special on the history and discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope – Invisible Universe Revealed. Following the presentation portion…

  • January 2017 FAS Meeting

    This evening, at SciWorks in Winston Salem at 7:30 PM, the Forsyth Astronomical Society will hold its first meeting of the year. If you have ever been to one of our events and heard us call celestial objects out by an “M#” or you have possibly seen these labels on your own in researching our…