**10/28/25 UPDATE Due to forecasted cloudy skies the Deerfield Astronomy Under the City Lights event will be moved to Wednesday, October 29th** 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 […]
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 in the past has made this talk pretty much a yearly event. This is sure to be a very educational and informative talk. The presentation […]
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 for antimatter with capabilities in scientific research and engineering development. His talk will be about the possibilities of using antimatter in interstellar travel. This […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Lake County Astronomical Society will be hosting Astronomy Day at Ela Area Public Library on April 25th, 2026 from 11am to 4pm. The event is free to attend and open to the public. There will be exhibits, raffle prizes, astronomical related activities for all ages, and weather permitting solar observing outside. Ela Area Public […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
