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  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 4/27

    Update 4/26: we are a GO for tomorrow night’s observation. The conditions won’t be optimal, but with it being the last observation for the spring/summer at this locale we can play peekaboo through some clouds if need be. Hope to see you there. Saturday April 27th the Forsyth Astronomical Society will host an observation at…

  • Observations For Kaleideum and Pilot Mountain 4/12 and 4/13

    Update 4/13: It seems like mother nature is throwing us a curve ball for this evenings event. The window of clearing we were seeing for the last couple days in the weather models is no longer there.  The plan as it stands is the coordinate with our ranger liaison at the park and assess the…

  • April 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday April 10th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for the FAS April meeting will be given by club member Steve Childers, titled: Johannes Kepler and the Intersection of Astronomy, Religion and Witchcraft. The German astronomer Johannes Kepler is best known for discovering that the planets orbit…

  • Upcoming Events of Interest to the FAS and Friends

    A couple of events that might be of interest to FAS members and friends. For more details click the links with each event. April 12, 2019, 7:00 pm The Stellar Society Lecture (free) “Our Sun: Then, Now, and What Might Be” Featuring Dr. Alicia Aarnio, UNC-Greensboro GTCC, Jamestown, NC Koury Hospitality Careers Center Auditorium https://www.gtcc.edu/community-engagement/cline-observatory/special-lectures-and-events/stellar-society-lecture.php…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter April 2019

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 4 April 2019   By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: The privately run Space X program has sent the Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station with a load of supplies. The capsule was returned safely back to Earth. The…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 3/30

    Update 3/29: We are a GO for our observation at Stone Mountain Sate Park!!!!! The conditions won’t be optimal but, we should be able to show you some nice night sky wonders.     Saturday March 30th, the Forsyth Astronomical Society will host an observation at Stone Mountain State Park in the family camping area.…

  • March 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday March 13th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program for the FAS March meeting is an episode of The Sky at Night that visits the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia. This observatory houses an experiment jointly developed by Arizona State University and MIT called…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter March 2019

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 3 March 2019 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Exoplanet hunter TESS has begun surveying the southern hemisphere sky for planets orbiting stars. After 15 years of productive exploration, Mars rover Opportunity has been declared dead by NASA. The dust storm…

  • FAS Pilot Mountain Public Observation Saturday March 9th

      Update 3/8: The public observation scheduled for this Saturday, March 9th at Pilot Mountain State Park is cancelled due to poor weather, clouds and a chance of rain during the observation period. Our next scheduled events will be our regular monthly meeting on March 13th and a public observation at Stone Mountain State Park…