constellations

  • A History of The Constellations

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 2. As we look up at the night sky, we see patterns of stars. For many of us these patterns are familiar, and most were identified by the ancients a few thousand years ago. We recognize the constellations and asterisms such as Orion, The Big and Small Dippers, Scorpius,…

  • Astrology to Astronomy

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 4. I don’t know how many times I talk to someone who knows that I have an interest in Astronomy, but they refer to it as Astrology. Well Astrology does have something to do with the night sky and, from an historical standpoint, it is related to astronomy. Both…

  • The Night Sky

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 9. The stars follow a very regular pattern when viewed from the Earth. They appear to move from east to west. This pattern repeats itself over the course of a night (Earth’s rotation) and over the four seasons of the year (Earth’s orbit). The constellations that dominate the night…

  • 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…