The May 2026 meeting of the Chicago Astronomical Society will be on
Saturday, May 23, 2026
at the
Cernan Earth and Space Center.
Please note the schedule so you won't be late for pizza!
Meeting Agenda:
5:00 PM -- Astro-talk over pizza and soft drinks. (Donations are welcome to offset the cost of food and beverage.)
6:00 PM -- The lectures will begin.
7:30 PM -- If the weather permits , we will have telescopes set up to view the Moon, Jupiter and Venus.
At this meeting we will see the planetarium show Messengers of Time and Space
About the show:
With data from powerful new telescopes, like the Rubin Observatory in Chile, groundbreaking astronomical surveys
will be able to detect up to 10 million changes across the entire sky in a single night. Every change detected will
be analyzed in real time, and some of these events may generate alerts for immediate follow-up and detailed
observations by the other observatories around the world, especially Gemini North in Hawaii.
These visual observations combined with additional messengers of time and space, such as cosmic rays, elusive
neutrinos, and gravitational waves, will provide astronomers with a greater understanding of changes that occur in
the blink of an eye or in slow motion over a much longer period of time.
Messengers of Time and Space
Looking Ahead: The May meeting of the Chicago Astronomical Society (CAS) will be on Saturday, June 20, 2026 at the Cernan Earth and Space Center at 5:00 Event Calendar
Membership: If you enjoy the activities of the CAS, please become a member.
Regular membership is only $30 for an individual and $50 for a family membership.
We now accept payment via Zelle.
We would like to thank the Cernan Center and its director Kris McCall for their support of the CAS and astronomy/science education. We encourage CAS members and all others who support science education to purchase memberships for the Cernan Center.
We would also like to thank our members for their past and continued support.
We hope that you can attend. Please feel free to forward and invite friends!
Clear Skies!
Tony Harris
V.P. and Program Manager,
Chicago Astronomical Society
