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• LAS General Meeting

  • When
    Fri, July 17, 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Epiphany Catholic Church Youth Center

  At this Friday, July 17th monthly meeting our guest speaker shall be Dr. Chris Graney presenting “UNIVERSE OF EARTHS: Science and the Concept of Planet Earth”

  DESCRIPTION: Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo called "the dance of the stars." But almost as soon as humans started to grasp that Earth is a planet, many also began wondering if perhaps the other planets might be earths. This bold conjecture ignited the whole gripping history and literature of space travel, of extraterrestrials, of other worlds. 
  
  And yet the thesis that the Universe is full of other worlds like Earth has from the start been fueled more by imagination than by scientific evidence. For all its appeal, it has consistently been undermined by observations of the actual Universe. This talk will be based on material in the new book from Oxford University Press, A Universe of Earths: Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA by Dennis Danielson and Christopher M. Graney, and on their related cover article in the March 2026 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.
  
  BIO: Christopher M. Graney is an astronomer and historian of science at the Specola Vaticana (the Vatican’s astronomical observatory) and the Vatican Observatory Foundation. He is the author of five books and numerous scholarly and popular articles on the history of astronomy. He lives in Louisville.

  Non-members are welcome to attend as well as those with questions about using their telescope. Someone will be willing to help you out. Feel free to bring your scope along.

  The meeting will be livestreamed on YouTube at this link: 

  https://youtube.com/live/sOOE-wGMIHI?feature=share
  

  Our meeting is at a new venue, The Youth Center at Epiphany Catholic Church on 914 Old Harrods Creek Rd in Anchorage.  Here is the Google map link https://maps.app.goo.gl/aGKhcTDCt3YFjzgh6

  

  
  

  
  

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• Public Night at Curby

  • When
    Sat, July 18, 2026
  •  
    8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    Curby

  We welcome the Public to join us at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy  in Curby, Indiana, one hour away from Louisville. Tonight the Waxing Crescent Moon will be 21% illuminated and 4.5 days old in this lunation for observing through our telescopes. Venus will also be visible low in the southwestern sky.
  

  This event is weather dependent so conditions may cause cancellation.
  

  Map to Curby

  The LAS welcomes one and all at our Star Parties. If you have a scope and are having trouble figuring out how to use it, please feel free to bring it to our public Star Party. LAS members are always invited to setup their telescopes for our Public Star Parties at Curby.
  

  The LAS is an IRC §501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Donations are welcome.

  May your scope and skies be clear at the same time. Hope to see you there.

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• Milky Way Festival

  • Start
    Fri, August 07, 2026
  •  
    8:00 PM
  • End
    Sat, August 08, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Cave Country Canoes: 112 W Main Street, Milltown, IN 47145

  Friday August 7th and Saturday August 8th at Cave Country Canoes in Milltown, IN

  All events run 8:00 p.m. - Midnight, Friday and Saturday nights.

  Crawford County, Indiana, the location of LAS' Dark Site in Curby, is embracing their dark skies by hosting their 3rd Milky Way Festival. They have asked LAS to be involved. Telescopes will be set up each night and volunteers will be available to help people view the night sky. 

  As always this is a weather dependent event. Keep an eye on the LAS and Cave Country Canoes social media sites for cancellation information.

  The backup dates are tentatively scheduled for the following Friday and Saturday, August 14th and 15th. Same times.

  Address:  112 W Main St, Milltown, IN 47145

  Sunset: 8:45 p.m.

  Observing starts: 9:15 p.m.

  Best observing after 10:00 p.m.

  End: 12:00 a.m.

  If you would like to volunteer, please email Aaron, aaron.hellems@gmail.com. Please list the equipment you can bring as well as the dates you are available.

  https://cometocrawford.com/milkywayfest/

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• Public Night at Curby

  • When
    Sat, August 22, 2026
  •  
    7:30 PM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    Curby

  We welcome the Public to join us at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy  in Curby, Indiana, one hour away from Louisville. Tonight the Waxing Gibbous Moon will be 74% illuminated and 9.7 days old in this lunation for observing through our telescopes. We might catch a glimpse of Venus in the evening twilight before it sets this evening.

  This event is weather dependent so conditions may cause cancellation. 
  

  Map to Curby

  The LAS welcomes one and all at our Star Parties. If you have a scope and are having trouble figuring out how to use it, please feel free to bring it to our public Star Party.

  The LAS is an IRC §501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Donations are welcome.

  May your scope and skies be clear at the same time. Hope to see you there.

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• Public Night at Curby

  • When
    Sat, September 19, 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    Curby

  We welcome the Public to join us at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy  in Curby, Indiana, one hour away from Louisville. Tonight the Waxing Gibbous Moon will be 58% illuminated and 8 days old in this lunation for observing through our telescopes. Saturn will also be available for observing later this evening.
  

  This event is weather dependent so conditions may cause cancellation. 
  

  Map to Curby

  The LAS welcomes one and all at our Star Parties. If you have a scope and are having trouble figuring out how to use it, please feel free to bring it to our public Star Party.

  The LAS is an IRC §501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Donations are welcome.

  May your scope and skies be clear at the same time. Hope to see you there.

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• Public Night at Curby

  • When
    Sat, October 17, 2026
  •  
    6:00 PM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    Curby

  We welcome the Public to join us at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy  in Curby, Indiana, one hour away from Louisville. Tonight, the Waxing Crescent Moon will be 40% illuminated and 6.5 days old in this lunation for observing through our telescopes. Saturn will also be visible tonight.
  

  This event is weather dependent so conditions may cause cancellation. 
  

  Map to Curby

  The LAS welcomes one and all at our Star Parties. If you have a scope and are having trouble figuring out how to use it, please feel free to bring it to our public Star Party.

  The LAS is an IRC §501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Donations are welcome.

  May your scope and skies be clear at the same time. Hope to see you there.

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• Public Night at Curby

  • When
    Sat, November 14, 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    Curby

  We welcome the Public to join us at the James G. Baker Center for Astronomy  in Curby, Indiana, one hour away from Louisville. Tonight the Waxing Crescent Moon will be 25% illuminated and 5 days old in this lunation for observing through our telescopes. Saturn will also be visible for viewing tonight.

  This event is weather dependent so conditions may cause cancellation. 
  

  Map to Curby

  The LAS welcomes one and all at our Star Parties. If you have a scope and are having trouble figuring out how to use it, please feel free to bring it to our public Star Party.

  The LAS is an IRC §501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Donations are welcome.

  May your scope and skies be clear at the same time. Hope to see you there.

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