Mercury Transit

  • November 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday November 13th, 7:30 pm, at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The presentation topic this month will be given by club member Bruce Mellin about the recent Mercury transit. Bruce’s synopsis: “Observing Mercury and Venus is difficult from our platform on the Earth. Both planets were visible…

  • FAS Mercury Transit Observation at Kaleideum North 11/11

      On Monday November 11th the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have SOLAR SAFE observation equipment set up for the pubic to use to safely see the transit of Mercury. What is a transit? It is similar an eclipse where in a celestial body moves between the Sun and the Earth. With an eclipse, from our…