March 2013

  • April Meeting

    “You can almost touch the stars” Webiner presenter : Tom Field Even if you wanted to touch a star, they’re impossibly distant. But despite these great distances, researchers have learned a great deal about quite a few stars. How? The most common method to study the stars is called spectroscopy, which is the art and…

  • Special – Rick Kendrick Talk – Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization (PIAA) Coronagraph

    Hi FAS folks: This Monday, April 1, at 7:30 PM at SciWorks, FAS will sponsor a special lecture by hometown astronomer Rick Kendrick.  Rick has spent the last 30 years working in the aerospace industry designing and building imaging systems. He is currently a Lockheed Martin Fellow at the Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto,…

  • First Annual Statewide Star Party – FAS at Yadkin County Park

  • Club Meeting

    Tuesday March 26, 2013 Sci Works: 7:30 pm Program: Radio Astronomy at 21 cm   Rexford Adelberger, Ph.D. Professor of Physics, Emeritus Guilford College Dr Adelberger’s talk on March 26th will explain the generation and detection of radio signals. He will then describe the radio astronomy program at Guilford College that is tuned to the…

  • Report from Pilot Mountain Observation

    Stargazers who made it up to the top of Pilot Mountain this Saturday had a delightful evening, with warmer than usual temperatures, no wind, and clear skies. There were at least a dozen telescopes belonging to members of both FAS and the Greensboro astronomy club; the latter made the trip to catch a glimpse of…

  • Pilot Mountain State Park – update

    Hi FAS folks: To walk outside this afternoon, it may seem like Spring has arrived. Certainly, it will seem like mid-summer to those fools – er, I mean, brave souls – who were up at Pilot Mountain last week, where temperatures are predicted to be 25° warmer tomorrow compared to last Saturday. More important, the…

  • Kernersville News interviews FAS member David Elosser

  • Pilot Mountain State Park

    Hi FAS people: It took several rounds of telephone tag, but the rangers at Pilot Mountain have finally authorized us to conduct a make-up public observation this Saturday, March 9. While I can’t promise clear skies at this point, it does look fairly certain that it will be significantly warmer up on the top of…

  • Pilot Mountain State Park – update

    Hi FAS folks: There may be a possibility this Saturday to see the comet Panstarr as it begins to move away from the Sun. As Bruce Mellin said in his program last week, this comet could be an outstanding sight with a nice tail, although there continues to be disagreements in the astronomical community about…