astronomy history

  • 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 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…

  • March 2020 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday March 11th, 7:30 pm, at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. Guest speaker Thomas Hefner will be giving the presentation on Johannes Kepler. Thomas has been a member of the Greensboro Astronomy Club for the past decade. Currently Thomas teaches science at the Middle College at UNCG…

  • October 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday October 9th, 7:30 pm, at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The presentation topic this month is given by club member Bruce Gavett and is entitled: Follow the Road to the Moon – Part II (Gemini) After the initial steps into space, and before the Apollo program…

  • July 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday July 10th, 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 presented by Captain Mike Lucas, NASA Solar System Ambassador from Kernersville. For biography and information on his work as a NASA Solar System Ambassador Click his image to…

  • June 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday June 12th, 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 FAS club Member Bruce Gavett in preparation of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Moon landing entitled: The Road to the Moon “Fifty years ago for…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • April 2018 FAS Meeting

    The April meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be held this Wednesday, April 11th at 7:30 pm at Kaleidieum North. The program will be by FAS Member Bob Patsiga and will be a bio on one of the preeminent astronomers of the 20th century, Edwin Hubble Following the presentation portion, we will have a brief business/planning…