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  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 10/13

    Update October 13th: We are a Go for this evenings observation. Conditions aren’t perfect but they are the best we’ve had for an observation at this locale all year-long. Come on out and enjoy the night sky with us.   Saturday October 13th, the Forsyth Astronomical Society will host an observation at Stone Mountain State…

  • October 2018 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday October 10th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. This month’s program we will be a presentation by Jonathan Ward, a NASA Solar System Ambassador from Greensboro. His talk is entitled “Spaced Out in Tucson: A virtual visit to Kitt Peak Observatory and the OSIRIS-REx control…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter October 2018

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 10 October 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Two research teams at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered bottom quarks, which are significant decay products of Higgs bosons. This represents filling in a major missing…

  • FAS Observation at Kaleideum North Saturday 9/15

    The Forsyth Astronomical Society has an observation event scheduled for this Saturday September 15th. With the upcoming torrential downpour expected we are not hopeful for this to proceed. We will still have a final weather call posted after 5 pm on Fri the 14th. With the doubtful outcome of this event happening our next public…

  • September 2018 FAS Meeting

      Wednesday September 12th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have it’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting for September. For this month’s program we will be watching and discussing an episode of the BBC’s The Sky at Night entitled “The Mystery of  ‘Oumuamua” , the first known interstellar object to pass through the…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter September 2018

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 9 September 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Radar images of Mars indicate that there could be bodies of liquid aqueous solution under the planet’s southern cap. How do we measure the most massive stars?…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 9/1

    Update 8/31: As it stands we are a GO for tomorrow nights observation. The conditions aren’t ideal. We’ll definitely be playing peek a boo between clouds. The coordinator is going to revisit the forecast tomorrow at around 1 pm and has reserved the option to cancel last-minute. You’ll want to double-check this post or our…

  • Camper Observation at Stone Mountain State Park 8/18

    Update 8/18: We are rescinding our previous cancellation!!!! The observation is back on. It looks like we’re going to have a break in the weather between 8 and 11 that will be clear enough to catch the planets and the Moon. Given we have had to cancel every observation at this site for this year thus far.…

  • August 2018 FAS Meeting

    The August meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society will be this coming Wednesday, August 8th at 7:30 pm at Kalideum North. The presentation this month will be by our very own Bruce Mellin. Bruce has over forty year’s experience teaching science. He holds a BA from Northeastern University and a Master of Science Teaching degree from Boston College.…