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  • 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…

  • *TRI*STAR* 2019 March 2

    On March 2nd, GTCC/Cline Observatory will host its annual astronomy conference, The Triad Star Festival ( Tri-Star). This event is FREE and open to all with an interest in astronomy both novice and professional alike. This years opening pre-conference lecture is on Friday March 1st at 7:00 pm by: Stella Kafka, Director, AAVSO : Variable…

  • February 2019 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday January 9th, 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 a video and discussion on an episode from The Sky at Night series entitled: “Telescope on a Plane!” This telescope, called SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 2/9

    Update 2/8: We are a GO for the Stone Mountain observation. The weather forecast is for clouds pretty much all day but to begin clearing at dusk and improve during the time frame of our observation. It’s going to be cold though. The temperature will be in the mid 40’s at dusk and in the…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter February 2019

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 2 February 2019 By Bob Patsiga         In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: China puts a lander and rover on the far side of the Moon. They try raising plants there too. NASA and Japan send probes to two…