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  • FAS Observation at Kaleideum North Saturday 9/15

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society has an observation event scheduled for this Saturday September 15th. With the upcoming torrential downpour expected we are not hopeful for this to proceed. We will still have a final weather call posted after 5 pm on Fri the 14th. With the doubtful outcome of this event happening our next public…

  • September 2018 FAS Meeting

      Wednesday September 12th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have it’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting for September. For this month’s program we will be watching and discussing an episode of the BBC’s The Sky at Night entitled “The Mystery of  ‘Oumuamua” , the first known interstellar object to pass through the…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter September 2018

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 9 September 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Radar images of Mars indicate that there could be bodies of liquid aqueous solution under the planet’s southern cap. How do we measure the most massive stars?…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 9/1

    Update 8/31: As it stands we are a GO for tomorrow nights observation. The conditions aren’t ideal. We’ll definitely be playing peek a boo between clouds. The coordinator is going to revisit the forecast tomorrow at around 1 pm and has reserved the option to cancel last-minute. You’ll want to double-check this post or our…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 8/18

    Update 8/18: We are rescinding our previous cancellation!!!! The observation is back on. It looks like we’re going to have a break in the weather between 8 and 11 that will be clear enough to catch the planets and the Moon. Given we have had to cancel every observation at this site for this year thus far.…

  • August 2018 FAS Meeting

    The August meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this coming Wednesday, August 8th at 7:30 pm at Kalideum North. The presentation this month will be by our very own Bruce Mellin. Bruce has over forty year’s experience teaching science. He holds a BA from Northeastern University and a Master of Science Teaching degree from Boston College.…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter August 2018

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 8 August 2018 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Updates to the Japanese probe Hayabusa-2. A discovery of additional moons around Jupiter has brought its total moon count to a surprising number. New observation techniques have helped…

  • Public Observation at Kaleideum North 7/21

      Update 7/20: The observation at Kaleideum North for Saturday July 21st has been canceled. We were hoping the weather would break to being just intermittently cloudy but all the sources we use have consistent thunderstorms for the evening. The next public events on our calendar will be our regularly scheduled monthly meeting on August…

  • July 2018 FAS Meeting

    The July meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this coming Wednesday, July 11th at 7:30 pm at Kalideum North. Setting the theme for this month’s public observation of Mars during opposition, July 21st more details to come. The program will be from the BBC’s The Sky at Night series and is titled “Mars: Red and…