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  • July 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday July 10th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for this month’s meeting will be presented by Captain Mike Lucas, NASA Solar System Ambassador from Kernersville. For biography and information on his work as a NASA Solar System Ambassador Click his image to…

  • FAS Pilot Mountain Public Observation Thursday July 4th

    Update 7/4: We are a GO for this evening. It’s a mixed bag on the forecasts so we’re going to be packing lite on the equipment side in case of a passing shower. Come on out and enjoy the sights. We should be able to see several local fireworks shows and possibly a passing lightening…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter July 2019

      The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 7 July 2019 By Bob Patsiga   In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: An annotated outline of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the Moon is presented. Results of analysis of the Apollo 11 Moon rocks and soils given by a group at the Smithsonian…

  • A Call to Arms for ALL Citizen Scientists

    If you’re into astronomy, (chuckles lightly), you have most likely heard of the Osiris Rex mission to the asteroid Bennu. Part of that mission is to do a sample return of an actual piece of an asteroid. The folks at the Planetary Science Institute, that wrote the software to help determine the best place for…

  • June 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday June 12th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for this month’s meeting will be given by FAS club Member Bruce Gavett in preparation of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Moon landing entitled: The Road to the Moon “Fifty years ago for…

  • Kaleideum North Public Observation 6/8

    On Saturday June the 8th the Forsyth Astronomical Society has a free public observation scheduled.  As of this posting the weather forecast does NOT look conducive to the event with clouds and thunderstorms throughout the evening. It is tentatively canceled. If for some reason the weather forecast does a complete 180 and conditions change we…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter June 2019

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 6 June 2019   By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: European Space Agency’s GAIA spacecraft has discovered three asteroids which are puzzling astronomers. The gold, silver and other heavy elements that we find on Earth are proposed to beformed during the…

  • May 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday May 8th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for this month’s meeting will be given by Dr. Brad Barlow, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at High Point University, titled: “Exploring the Impact of Substellar Objects on Late Stellar Evolution.” A description of this…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter May 2019

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 5 May 2019     By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Planetary scientists are trying to determine the origin of methane that has been detected in the atmosphere of Mars. Astronomers use the mechanics of star revolutions in binary systems to…