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  • Young Astronomers Newsletter February 2018

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 2 February 2018 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Using the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes, astronomers have gotten detailed structure of the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy. The region is over 65,000…

  • Kaleideum North Observation Saturday January 20th

    Update 1/19: We are a go for tomorrow night’s observation. Conditions over today and tomorrow should help tremendously with any left over winter precipitation but PLEASE use your own judgment in getting out. We have many more events planned for the upcoming year. If you can safely, come on out and take in some night…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter January 2018

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 1 January 2018 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: NASA needing to adjust Voyager-1’s attitude to better communicate with Earth, resort to creative engineering solutions to further ensure its mission duration. Researchers at CERN have discovered methods…

  • FAS Calendar of Events – 2018 posted; January 2018 FAS Meeting

      Here at the FAS, we want to extend a Happy New Year to our friends and followers. Our calendar for the 2018 season has been posted.  Most of our basic events are settled, but we still have to finalize the schedule for our Stone Mountain events before posting. There are a few changes we…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter December 2017

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 25 Number 12 December 2017 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: The politics of space flight. Congress issues warnings to NASA concerning it recent delay of the Space Launch System. A long-lasting supernova, iPTF14hls, discovered in 2014, is puzzling…

  • FAS Pilot Mountain Public Observation Saturday November 11th

      Update 11/17: It’s not looking like the weather will cooperate with us for tomorrow evening’s observation. We are canceling the event. We’re just as disappointed as you all are. This opportunity would have marked the end of our 2017 public observation season. Stay tuned to the website and Facebook for an announcement of when our 2018 calendar…

  • FAS Annual Telescope Workshop Saturday November 11th

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host our annual Telescope Workshop at Kaleideum North in Winston-Salem on Saturday November 11th from 1 pm-4 pm. If you’ve been thinking of getting gear to get started in astronomy or you have gear but need experienced advice on how to better operate it, or are looking to upgrade, we have you covered. Come join…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter November 2017

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 25 Number 11 November 2017 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: LIGO and its Italian counterpart VIRGO pick up some HUGE gravitational wave readings. Where did they come from and what did we learn from the detection? Interesting discoveries…

  • October 2017 FAS Meeting

      On October 24th the FAS will have its next regularly scheduled meeting at 7:30 pm in our usual conference room at Kaleideum North, 400 Museum Dr Winston Salem, NC. We will be hosting a video presentation entitled “Return to the Moon”, an episode from the BBC series The Sky at Night. A follow up…