• LCAS Monthly Meeting – The Cosmos in the Lab: Exploring the Dark Matter Mass Scale with Direct Detection

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

    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 prevailing hypothesis is that the dark matter is comprised of a new fundamental particle not found in the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In that […]

  • AUTCL – Deerfield

    Deerfield Public Library 920 Waukegan Road, Deerfield, IL, United States

    **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 […]

  • LCAS Monthly Meeting – Space: The Year in Review

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

    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 […]

  • Antimatter vs Fusion Deceleration Concepts for Exoplanet Exploration

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

    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 […]

  • 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, […]