Monthly Meeting

The Speaker for the June 20th meeting of the Lake County Astronomical Society is Jim Hopkins, retired Professor of Astronomy at Joliet Junior College with a Masters Degree from Eastern […]

The July 18th meeting of the Lake County Astronomical Society will feature a presentation by Jackie Cooney who is a professor at Harper College. This will be the first time […]

Amateur Astronomers Attend an Astronomical Conference: A Report on AAS 244 Our Speaker for the September 19th of the Lake County Astronomical Society is Dale Dellutri who has had a […]

While the astrophysical and cosmological evidence supporting the existence of a gravitationally-active dark matter is overwhelming, no signals unambiguously attributable to it have yet been observed in laboratory experiments. The […]

Larry Boyle, with the Chicago Society for Space Studies Speakers Bureau will give a presentation titled, ‘Space: The Year in Review’. Mr Boyle who has presented to LCAS many times […]

The February 20th meeting of the LCAS will feature a presentation by Dr. Gerald Jackson.  Dr.  Jackson retired from Fermilab is now President of Hbar Technologies a firm developing markets […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]