Please join us for the September meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, September 9. The meeting will be held at Kaleideum – located at 120 West 3rd Street downtown in Winston-Salem, NC.
The program will be A journey into radio astronomy by FAS member Michael Wharton.
This presentation is about what I learned during my journey into radio astronomy along with a high-level overview of what radio astronomy is all about. It started with a FAS trip to Greenbank, West Virginia and my discovery of the GBT (Greenbank Telescope) 140-foot radio telescope and a 3-meter radio disk that the club could play with. This sparked a passion to learn more about astronomy and how to build a small radio telescope using a TV satellite dish. I quickly became overwhelmed. So, I pulled myself back out of the quagmire of radio waves, radio astronomy and astrophysics and into a more basic focus on what is going on. So, this is my journey – I hope you enjoy it as we walk through it.
Here is what you will learn:
- The Basics of Radio Astronomy
- Ways to get started in Radio Astronomy
- The Jovian Project
- Registering for Remote Observing
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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