August 2016

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter August 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 8 August 2016 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Update on New Horizons and JUNO missions.  New Horizons is now well beyond Pluto and NASA has already identified its next Kuiper Belt object for exploration. JUNO…