March 2023

  • The Visible Universe

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 2. This is part 1 of a 5-part series on the Universe (The Visible Universe, The Dark Universe, The Microscopic Universe, The Expanding Universe, and The Multiverse). When we look up at the night sky, we can see clouds. Yes, for most of us interested in astronomy, this is…

  • The Copernican Revolution

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 1. Back in the old days, people would look up at the sky. They noticed that the Sun and the stars would rise in the east and set in the west. From month to month the stars would follow a similar patter as they rose earlier and set earlier…

  • March 2023 Meeting

    March 2023 FAS Meeting   Wednesday, March 8 @ 7:30 pm. at Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks), 400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC. (https://north.kaleideum.org/visit/directions/) Please join us for the March 2023 meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society. The talk this month, given by Thomas Hefner of the Greensboro Astronomy Club, will be about William Herschel and…