Please join us for the May meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, June 10. The meeting will be held at Kaleideum – located at 120 West 3rd Street downtown in Winston-Salem, NC.
The program, hands-on make-it take-it clocks, will be facilitated by Greensboro Astronomy Club member Thomas Hefner. An occasional presenter to FAS, Thomas retired from teaching high school physics and other science subjects in May of 2025 after a career that spanned over three decades.
The program will consist of the construction of a lunar clock that can be used to determine the time of day based on the phase of the moon and the angle of the moon in the sky. The second clock that will be made is a “Big Dipper Clock” and, like the lunar clock the Big Dipper clock, will allow the determination of the time of day based on the day of the year and the position of the Big Dipper in the night sky.
You don’t have to be a member to attend. If you’re curious and have an interest in astronomy and the universe, come on out! Of course, you can come just for the donuts.
The doors to the building will open at 7:00 pm. The doors will reman locked. Someone will be there to let you in.
We will meet in the 1st floor La STEAM B room. Enter through the side entrance (Members and Group entrance on the left). Go straight ahead into the meeting room.
When leaving, go out through the same side door and make sure the door is closed tightly behind you.
Please DO NOT wander throughout the building – The exhibits are NOT open.
There is no onsite parking, but after 5:00 PM and on weekends, all on-street parking is free (even with the new parking system downtown). The nearest on-street parking is on Third Street in front of the building and on Liberty Street. There are paid decks nearby, with the closest one being Liberty Plaza just south of the museum with entrances on Town Run Lane and Liberty Street. Here is a parking map of downtown.
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