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September 2016 FAS Meeting
The September meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this Tuesday night, September 27th, at 7:30 pm at SciWorks. This month’s program will be presented by club member Charles London, about his trip to Ireland and his visit to Lord Rosse’s “Leviathan of Parsontown”. Click the picture above for more info. Following the presentation…
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Lock In Observation at Stone Mountain State Park for Campers Saturday September 10th
Update: We are a GO for the observation tomorrow evening!!!!! The weather forecast is for partly cloudy skies so we’ll take it. This Saturday September 10th, the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have an observation in the camp ground of Stone Mountain State Park. This is primarily an event for the campers of the park but the public…
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August 2016 FAS Meeting
The August meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this Tuesday night, August 23rd, at 7:30 pm at SciWorks. This month’s program will be presented by club member Bruce Mellin and is titled: “Measuring Light”. Following the presentation portion we will have a brief business meeting and as always there will be an informal social…
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Stone Mountain camper observation August 6
Our scheduled observation at Stone Mountain State Park for tomorrow night, August 6th, has been cancelled due to inclement weather. Our next outreach opportunity will be another observation at Stone Mountain on September 10th, weather permitting. There are several upcoming astronomical events happening this month so stay tuned here or the club’s Face Book page…
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July 2016 FAS Meeting
This month’s meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be on July 26th at 7:30pm at Sciworks. The presentation will be given by club VP Priscilla Ivester on the “Harvard Computers”, an often overlooked group of gifted female mathematicians who did the majority of the astronomical calculations for the predominately male dominated field. These ladies’ contributions and skill…
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Lock In Observation at Stone Mountain State Park for Campers Saturday July 9th
Update 7/8: The event this weekend is a GO!!! There will be no solar observing in the afternoon before this event due to the sun’s activity being relatively quiet right now. The sun will be setting at about 8:45 pm. Hope to see you there. This Saturday July 9th, the Forsyth Astronomical Society will…
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