A Game of Mysteries: Astronomy and the Unveiling of Nature’s Secret Workings Shane L. Larson Clarkson University No human has ever travelled farther from Earth than the Moon. No robotic probe has ever travelled farther than the edge of our solar system. Yet huddled around a telescope at night, we regularly regale our friends and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Speaker for the July meeting of the Lake County Astronomical society will be Jim Kovac. Details TBD
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 […]
The Speaker for the November 20th meeting of LCAS will be Larry Boyle. Mr. Boyle has been pretty much of a yearly feature. His Presentation “Space: The Year in Review” is sure to be an interesting and educational talk. Please join us. Weather permitting LCAS Members will setup telescopes at the Volo Bog and show […]
