Category: FAS Monthly Meeting

  • August 2013 FAS Meeting

    Tom English, director of the Cline Observatory at GTCC will be our August speaker. His talk is entitled: Agnes Clerke and the New Astronomy In…

  • July 2013 FAS Meeting

    Hi FAS folks: Although we are having the worst summer for observing in recent memory, our FAS meetings go on. Our next meeting will be…

  • Club Meeting June 25, 2013

    Program: Dr. Steve Danford from UNC Greensboro, will be discussing the latest information on the Globular Clusters that orbit our Galaxy. These dense clusters of…

  • June 25th meeting

    Our June speaker, Dr. Steve Danford from UNC Greensboro, will be discussing the latest information on the Globular Clusters that orbit our Galaxy. These dense…

  • May 28, 2013 Meeting

    FAS May 2013 Meeting Exoplanets   Explore beyond the Solar System at the May meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society. Prior to the 1990s, the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Club Meeting Info Feb 26th, 2013

    Discussion leader/Presenter: Bruce Mellin Comet Conversations We are fortunate this year to be expecting the passage of two interesting comets. Both have hyperbolic orbits and…

  • Mars 3-D Jan. 22, 2013 Meeting Links

    Mars 3-D links Links to current Mars missions: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ “Mars in 3-D: Images from the Viking Mission” (NASA movie, 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRHSg5daMs HiRISE Anaglyphs: “Explore Mars,…

  • Club Meeting 22 January 2013

    *Hi FAS folks: Our next meeting will be tomorrow night, January 22, starting at 7:30 PM at Sci-Works. Our program, “Attacking Mars – in 3D,” presented by…

  • February 18th 2009

    February 18th 2009 The meeting took place as planned. Names entered for election next month. Bob talked about IYA Sandy Galaxies II took place, the…

  • Before Jan, 2012 – Meeting

      December 2011 Meeting Come on out and join in the for the clubs pot luck Christmas gathering. Also the club historian will present a…