FAS monthly meeting

  • June 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on June 27th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program this month will be a video presentation on the history of the telescope. Following the presentation portion, we will have a brief business meeting and as always, there will be an…

  • May 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on May 23rd at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program this month will be by Joseph Holmes, a recent graduate of Guilford College, rising graduate student at Appalachian State University and long-time volunteer at GTCC’s Cline Observatory. Joseph will be speaking…

  • April 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on April 25th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The presentation for this month will be “Chasing Pluto” and in-depth, behind-the -scenes look at the New Horizons mission. Following the presentation portion we will have a brief business meeting and as always…

  • 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…

  • February 2017 FAS Meeting

    The next monthly meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be held on February 28th at 7:30 PM at Sciworks in Winston salem. The presentation for the evening will be a video review of a PBS special on the history and discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope – Invisible Universe Revealed. Following the presentation portion…

  • January 2017 FAS Meeting

    This evening, at SciWorks in Winston Salem at 7:30 PM, the Forsyth Astronomical Society will hold its first meeting of the year. If you have ever been to one of our events and heard us call celestial objects out by an “M#” or you have possibly seen these labels on your own in researching our…

  • September 2016 FAS Meeting

    The September meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this Tuesday night, September 27th, at 7:30 pm at SciWorks. This month’s program will be presented by club member Charles London, about his trip to Ireland and his visit to Lord Rosse’s “Leviathan of Parsontown”. Click the picture above for more info. Following the presentation…

  • August 2016 FAS Meeting

    The August meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this Tuesday night, August 23rd, at 7:30 pm at SciWorks. This month’s program will be presented by club member Bruce Mellin and is titled: “Measuring Light”. Following the presentation portion we will have a brief business meeting and as always there will be an informal social…

  • July 2016 FAS Meeting

    This month’s meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be on July 26th at 7:30pm at Sciworks. The presentation will be given by club VP Priscilla Ivester on the “Harvard Computers”, an often overlooked group of gifted female mathematicians who did the majority of the astronomical calculations for the predominately male dominated field. These ladies’ contributions and skill…