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  • February 2023 Meeting

    Forsyth Astronomical Society (FAS)   February 2023 Meeting  Wednesday, February 8 @ 7:30 pm. at Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks), 400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC. (https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/) Please join us for the February 2023 meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society. This month, the speaker is Andrea Nichols, talking about “The Myths of Copernicus,” in honor…

  • January 2023 Meeting

    Happy New Year  Forsyth Astronomical Society (FAS)   January 2023 Meeting  Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 pm. at Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks), 400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC. (https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/) Welcome to the new year and the January 2023 FAS meeting! This month we’ll show several short TED videos on a variety of subjects. President Justin…

  • December 2022 Meeting

    December Potluck  Forsyth Astronomical Society (FAS)   December 2022 Meeting   Wednesday, December 14 @ 7:30 pm. at Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks), 400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC. (https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/) In December, FAS takes a break from traditional meeting programming and instead holds a potluck dinner. Choose your favorite dish, do some cooking, or grab…

  • FAS November 2022 Meeting

    Return to the Moon with Artemis    Forsyth Astronomical Society (FAS)   November 2022 Meeting    Wednesday, November 9 @ 7:30 pm. at Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks), 400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC. (https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/) Bruce Gavett will present November’s FAS program, which will be an overview of NASA’s plans to return to the Moon with Artemis.…

  • FAS October 2022 Meeting

    The Night Skies Network Forsyth Astronomical Society (FAS) October 2022 Meeting Wednesday, October 12 @ 7:30 pm. Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) 400 West Hanes Mill Road Winston-Salem, NC. https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/ Michael Wharton will present October’s FAS program, which will be an overview of the Night Skies Network. The Night Skies Network (https://NightSkiesNetwork.com) is a web site…

  • Sad news: Jeff Thompson

    Longtime FAS member Jeff Thompson passed away on September 12. He was active in our club from the 1990s, and was instrumental in obtaining funding and infrastructure to place viewing equipment for NASA TV, along with other astronomy education materials, in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools. Jeff was born and raised in Texas and was a…

  • September 2022 Meeting

    Where is Everybody? Updating the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox Forsyth Astronomical Society September 2022 Meeting Wednesday, September 14 @ 7:30 pm Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) 400 West Hanes Mill Road Winston-Salem, NC https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/ Steve Childers will present September’s FAS program titled, “Where is Everybody? Updating the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox.” In…

  • August 2022 FAS Meeting

    The Space Race – Other Hidden Figures Forsyth Astronomical Society August 2022 Meeting Wednesday, August 10 @ 7:30 pm Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) 400 West Hanes Mill Road Winston-Salem, NC https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/ Andrea Nichols will be briefly discussing lesser-known space race faces and places, such as the astronaut training at Morehead Planetarium and the women of…

  • July 2022 FAS Meeting

    The Best of the James Webb Space Telescope Forsyth Astronomical Society July 2022 Meeting Wednesday, July 13 @ 7:30 pm Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) 400 West Hanes Mill Road Winston-Salem, NC https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/ Last December after many years of planning, the James Web Space Telescope (JWST) launched into space. The first images from the JWST will…