Please join us for the June meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society on Wednesday, June 12. The meeting will be held at the new Kaleideum at 120 West 3rd Street downtown in Winston-Salem, NC.
FAS member Bruce Darling will talk about Edward Emerson Barnard, the Last of the Great Visual Astronomers and Pioneer of Astrophotography.
E.E. Barnard (1857-1923) led an incredible rags-to-greatness life, growing out of an impoverished Civil-War-era childhood in Tennessee during which he would make his bed in a farm wagon so he could watch the starry sky all night, to spending his days from age 9 on employed by a portrait photographer in town to track the sun to light a giant rooftop enlargement camera, to buying his own 5” refractor at age 19 with half a year’s wages and becoming such an adept comet finder that he was hired to be a visual observer at the then-new Vanderbilt University observatory, only to be hired away by the Lick Observatory in California and land eventually as a professor of astronomy for the University of Chicago at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.
You don’t have to be a member to attend. If you’re curious and have an interest in astronomy and the universe, come on out! Of course, you can come just for the donuts.
The meeting starts at 7:30 and will conclude with a short business meeting. The doors to the building will open at 7:00 pm. The doors will reman locked. Someone will be there to let you in.
We will meet in the 1st floor La STEAM B room. Enter through the side entrance (Members and Group entrance on the left). Go straight ahead into the meeting room.
When leaving, go out through the same side door and make sure the door is closed tight behind you.
Please DO NOT wander throughout the building – The exhibits are NOT open.
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