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  • FAS Pilot Mountain Public Observation Saturday February 29th

    Update  2/28: We are a GO for our public observation at Pilot Mountain State Park, this Saturday, February 29th. Observations will begin shortly after sunset. Sunset is at 6:17pm, astronomical twilight ends around 7:45pm,the Moon (32%) and Venus will be visible early, moonset is at 11:54pm. The weather forecast looks to be very good, but cold. Clear…

  • Gravitational Waves

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 3. In 1915, Albert Einstein overturned Newton’s theory of gravity. He published his General Theory of Relativity which said that gravity is the result of the warping of space/time rather than a force that extends across space. Einstein’s theory was based on his equivalence principle, which states that the…

  • February 2020 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday February 12th, 7:30 pm, at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. Club member Bruce Mellin will be giving the presentation entitled: Imperfect Time – A History of Mismatched Units of Time Measuring the passage of time has become more complicated as civilizations required greater precision from timekeeping…

  • Betelgeuse is Dimming

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 2. Astronomers measure the magnitude of a star in a bit of a strange way that dates to Hipparchus. A negative magnitude is brighter than a positive magnitude. A difference of one magnitude is actually a 2.5 times difference in brightness. A star’s apparent magnitude is the perceived magnitude…

  • FAS Observation at Kaleideum North Saturday 2/1

    Update 1/31:  We are a GO for tomorrow nights observation at Kaleideum North. The current forecast is calling for AM rain, followed by clearing skies around sunset. Clear to partly cloudy skies, with temperatures around 50 at sunset, falling to the mid to low 40’s by the end, NW winds around 6 mph.   Saturday February 1st…

  • Underground Oceans

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 1. Two of the most interesting moons in the solar system, other than Titan, are Enceladus and Europa. Enceladus is one of the smaller spherical moons of Saturn. Europa is one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter. Both moons are covered with water ice and astronomers believe they both…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 1/18

    Update 1/17: The public observation scheduled at Stone Mountain State Park for Saturday, January 18th, is cancelled. The weather forecast is cold, clouds, and rain. An unfortunate start to the year. Our next public observation event scheduled for February 1st at Kaleideum North. Our next Stone Mountain State Park event is on Saturday, February 22nd.…

  • January 2020 FAS Meeting

    The first meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society for the 2020 observing season will be on Wednesday January 8th, 7:30 pm, at Kaleideum North. The presentation topic this month will be a viewing and discussion of an episode of the BBC’s Sky at Night entitled “Alien Worlds.” The show travels to the UK Astronomy Technology…

  • Happy New Year – changes coming soon

    With the new year, The Forsyth Astronomical Society will be changing the format of the Young Astronomers Newsletter. Rather than a publication published on a monthly basis, the newsletter will become a series of on-line articles. The articles will be posted to this location: https://www.fas37.org/wp/category/astronomy/youngastronews/ We would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to…