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  • 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…

  • June 2022 FAS Meeting

    The Best of Hubble Forsyth Astronomical Society June 2022 Meeting Wednesday, June 8 @ 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. It will start observing the universe sometime this summer. But Webb’s…

  • May 2022 FAS Meeting

    Moons, moons, and more moons Forsyth Astronomical Society May Meeting Wednesday, May 11 @ 7:30 pm Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks) 400 West Hanes Mill Road Winston-Salem, NC https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/ Most of us are familiar with the planets of the Solar System; All eight of them … okay maybe nine. How about moons? We often look up…

  • A Tragic Loss for the FAS

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society has the extremely sad duty to announce that our longtime president David Morgan passed away suddenly and unexpectedly during the early morning hours on Monday, January 17th, at the age of 64. All of us at FAS have been shocked and devastated by this tragic news. Dave has been a constant…

  • Viruses and Vaccines

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 11. A pandemic has engulfed the world! Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that can produce a respiratory disease called COVID-19. Viruses A virus is a microscopic germ made up of genetic material (DNA or RNA. It is covered by a capsid (shell) of protein.…

  • July 2021 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday July 14th, 7:30 pm, in the planetarium of Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program will be presented by our own Bruce Gavett. The program is titled The Road to the Moon: Apollo, the Final Steps. Bruce will review the Apollo program and the final steps taking…