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  • Globe at Night

    http://www.globeatnight.org/ http://www.facebook.com/GLOBEatNight Join the Worldwide GLOBE at Night 2013 Campaign What would it be like without stars at night? What is it we lose? Starry night skies have given us poetry, art, music and the wonder to explore. A bright night sky (aka light pollution) affects energy consumption, health and wildlife too. Spend a few…

  • Recent New Zealand daylight meteor?

    From Dave Morgan, From Dr. Steve Kerr, expatriate Winston-Salem native and former FAS Secretary, who now lives in Dunedin, NZ sends this daylight meteor report. Check out the details Full screenshots provided below  

  • Post-event photos from SciWorks

  • The Young Astronomers Newsletter March 2013

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 21 Number 4 March 2013 By Art Gormley  

  • Pilot Mountain Observation – March 2, 2013

    Hi FAS people: The weather gods are tough. Two weather sites (including the Sky Clock) predict it will turn clear tomorrow night; two others say it will be cloudy. The smart money will be on the latter, but I’m not too smart, so (for the moment) our public observation at Pilot Mountain is on. If…

  • Sci Works – Scout Events

    Attention All Club Members: At the last meeting, I mentioned Scout events at SciWorks for Tiger, Cub, and Webelo scouts. The dates are March 1, 8, and 15. Activities will run from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM, but there will not be continuous activities for the whole four hours (you will have some down time).…

  • Public Viewing /Yadkin County Park Feb 21st

    Paul Wooten to all A big Thank You to the members who came out tonight to the Yadkin County Park and helped with the star party for the Yadkinville Elementary School students. Reports have attendance at 150-200 students and parents. We only got to see the moon for a while but the kids and parents were…

  • Chelyabinsk Meteor (02.15.13) – informational weblinks

    From Jeff Poplin – NASA revises (upward) preliminary estimates: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html UMSF forum pages about the event: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5524&st=285 Lots of good comments from knowledgeable folks… Interesting link used by one poster to estimate impact effects: http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ Phil Plait’s update: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/russian_meteorite_fragment_may_have_fallen_in_frozen_lake.html Meteosat-9 images showing contrail shadow on ground! First pics I’ve seen of possible fragments. http://74.mvd.ru/news/item/845855/ (need…

  • 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 are approaching the Sun for the first time. Predicting the brightness of even known periodic comets is well known to be a tricky business. Professional and amateur astronomers alike will…