FAS monthly meeting

  • October 2014 FAS Meeting

    Join Forsyth Astronomical Society (FAS) for our monthly meeting 7:30PM, October 28, 2014 at SciWork in Winston-Salem NC. Paul Jones will give a talk on planetary imaging and should have a good deal of information about this exciting art form of Astronomy.     There will be a short business meeting after the talk. Upcoming…

  • September 2014 FAS Meeting

    The monthly meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society is this Tuesday night at 7:30 at SciWorks. We will have another planning meeting for the September 27th New Telescope Buyer’s clinic, before the regular monthly meeting, starting at 6:00 pm at SciWorks. The program will be by me and will be a discussion of the dark…

  • August 2014 FAS Meeting

    The August meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society is next Tuesday night, August 26th at 7:30. The program is about solar observing and will be presented by Don Ehren. There will be a planning meeting for the Telescope buyer’s clinic prior to Tuesday’s meeting. This will start at 6:00. The clinic is to be held…

  • July 2014 FAS Meeting

    The monthly meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society is this Tuesday night at 7:30 at SciWorks. The program will be “Finding Exo-planets Using Pulsating Stars” presented by Dr. Brad Barlow of High Point University. Be there… David Morgan FAS President

  • June 2014 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society meets tonight at SciWorks at 7:30. There will be a planetarium program. David Morgan FAS President

  • May 2014 FAS Meeting

    What is a Dwarf Planet, how many are there and what did happen to poor Pluto?

  • March 2014 FAS Meeting

    Hi FAS folks: Our next meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30 PM at Sci-Works. This month’s program has been re-scheduled from our snowed-out January meeting. The program’s theme is Type 1a supernovas, presented by Brad Barlow, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at High Point University. Type 1a supernovas are important tools for determining…

  • February 2014 FAS Meeting

    Our February speaker, Jonathan Ward, is no stranger to FAS club members. Previously he delighted us with 3D images of Mars, and led us on an exploration of Saturn through images returned by the Cassini spacecraft. Jonathan is currently working on a book entitled “All Systems Go!” about the largely-forgotten people of Kennedy Space Center…

  • January 2013 FAS Meeting

    CANCELED DUE TO SNOW! The title of our January talk is a bit unusual. You might have thought twice about attending if the title read, “Discovery of an Under-luminous Type 1a Supernova Progenitor in Our Cosmic Backyard ”. Or, what if the talk was entitled, “A Zombie Star Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard”. (These are…