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  • Young Astronomers Newsletter July 2017

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 25 Number 7 July 2017 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: NASA’s plans to send a probe to our sun mid next year. A third detection of gravity waves by LIGO. New moons found orbiting our solar system’s largest…

  • Stone Mountain Observation 7/1 Cancelled

    The scheduled observation at Stone Mountain State Park for this Saturday July 1st has been cancelled due to weather conditions.  Our next scheduled public observation event is Saturday July 29th at Stone Mountain State park as well. A final weather call will be made the Friday before. Hopefully we will have better conditions then.  …

  • June 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on June 27th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program this month will be a video presentation on the history of the telescope. Following the presentation portion, we will have a brief business meeting and as always, there will be an…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter June 2017

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 25 Number 6 June 2017 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: NASA’s early stage planning for its mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Progress of the multinational World-Wide Radio Telescope array. Results from research done at University of Southampton,…

  • Last Minute Notice – Observation at Kaleideum North – Saturday June 3rd

    Sorry for the last-minute notification FAS folks and fans but there is a scheduled public observation at Kaleideum North, formerly Sciworks, this Saturday June 3rd. The weather is looking pretty good and it has been posted and promoted on the Kaleideum calendar, so we are a GO!   Sunset is at around 8:30 PM and…

  • Last Minute Date Change for Stone Mountain Observation – one day early!

      The FAS has an observation event at Stone Mountain State Park scheduled for tomorrow evening. That event has been canceled due to unfavorable weather conditions. THIS evening though, looks to be almost prime conditions to observe. So, we have worked it out with our ranger liaison to have our event this evening instead. We…

  • May 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on May 23rd at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The program this month will be by Joseph Holmes, a recent graduate of Guilford College, rising graduate student at Appalachian State University and long-time volunteer at GTCC’s Cline Observatory. Joseph will be speaking…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter May 2017

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 25 Number 5 May 2017 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Updates on the New Horizons mission. How measurements of neutrinos during a Supernova will be used to follow the progress of the event. How we are getting…

  • April 2017 FAS Meeting

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society will host their next monthly meeting on April 25th at 7:30 PM at Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks) in Winston-Salem. The presentation for this month will be “Chasing Pluto” and in-depth, behind-the -scenes look at the New Horizons mission. Following the presentation portion we will have a brief business meeting and as always…