Astronomy Under the City Lights is a free to all-ages event presented by the Lake County Astronomical Society in cooperation with local libraries. This month we are at the Grayslake Area Public Library for the August AUTCL event. LCAS volunteers will bring sophisticated telescopes to allow the public to view the Moon and other objects […]
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, […]
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 life-long fascination with science and technology. He will share his experience in attending the latest convention of the American Astronomical Society. He has worked with […]
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, […]
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 […]
**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 […]
LCAS Monthly Meeting: Speaker will be Jim Plaxco. Details forthcoming
topic TBD. Possibly on the LISA Telescope which is an interferometer in space and the measuring of gravitational wave’s B-Mode. These findings can lead to greater confirmation of the Inflationary Model of the Universe or if not found could give credence to the Cyclic Model
The Speaker for the May monthly meeting of the Lake County Astronomical Society will be Michelle Nichols
The Speaker for the July meeting of the Lake County Astronomical society will be Jim Kovac. Details TBD
Topic TBD
