• LCAS Monthly Meeting: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature

    Volo Bog 28478 W.Brandenburg Road, Ingleside, IL, United States

    The LCAS March Meeting will feature Speaker Jim Plaxco director of the National Space Society and President of the Chicago Society for Space Studies. Description of Presentation: Mapping of the Moon and the associated representations of the lunar surface have been heavily influenced by observational technology developments. The technological advances that increased astronomer’s ability to […]

  • AUTCL – Zion-Benton

    Zion Benton 2400 Gabriel Ave, Zion, IL

    Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries.  LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects in the sky. Visitors are welcome to view at any time during the scheduled hours, […]

  • AUTCL – Highwood

    Highwood Library 102 Highwood Ave, Highwood, IL

    Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries.  LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects in the sky. Visitors are welcome to view at any time during the scheduled hours, […]

  • Our Moon: Known and Unknown

    The Speaker for the May monthly meeting of the Lake County Astronomical Society will be Michelle Nichols Outreach Coordinator with the Adler Planetarium. The topic will be: Our Moon: Known and Unknown  Our Moon is one of the most familiar objects in our sky, but there is still a lot we don’t know about it. Spacecraft landings there seek ice, metals, rocks, and minerals […]

  • AUTCL – Aspen Drive – Vernon Hills

    Aspen Drive – Vernon Hills Library 701 Aspen Dr., Vernon Hills, Il

    Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries.  LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects in the sky. Visitors are welcome to view at any time during the scheduled hours, […]

  • Why Doesn’t Our Sun Just Explode? Or, Why has It Lasted So Long?

    Volo Bog 28478 W.Brandenburg Road, Ingleside, IL, United States

    The Speaker at June’s Monthly LCAS meeting will be Mark Christensen, PHD. The space race inspired him to earn degrees in both mathematics and physics while an undergraduate at Wayne State University. He earned is Masters in Physics at Purdue and his PhD in probability at Wayne State University He joined Northrop Corporation’s Defense System […]

  • AUTCL – Fremont

    Fremont Library 1170 N. Midlothian Rd., Mundelein, IL

    Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries.  LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects in the sky. Visitors are welcome to view at any time during the scheduled hours, […]

  • AUTCL – Grayslake

    Grayslake Area Public Library 100 Library Ln,, Grayslake, IL, United States

    Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries.  LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects in the sky. Visitors are welcome to view at any time during the scheduled hours, […]

  • AUTCL – Wauconda

    Wauconda Library 801 N. Main St., Wauconda, IL

    Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries.  LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects in the sky. Visitors are welcome to view at any time during the scheduled hours, […]

  • Presentation by Dr. Wayne Osborn of the Yerkes Observatory

    Volo Bog 28478 W.Brandenburg Road, Ingleside, IL, United States

    The monthly meeting of the Lake County Astronomical will be a presentation By Dr. Wayne Osborn. He will talking about the Glass Plate Collection which has been taken using the Great 40″ Refracture at the Yerkes Observatory. These plates go back to the late 1800’s and have been preserved to this day. Dr. Osborn has […]