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The Lima Astronomical Society has been serving the greater Lima area for over 50 years. We provide a forum for people interested in astronomy to network with other like minded people. We welcome new members and visitors to our meetings and observing events. Please explore our web site to learn more about us.
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It is simply getting terrible in the Lima area with increasing light pollution. It's just getting worse and worse. You can take a light pollution map of the entire United States and shrink it down to less then two inches and you can still point out Lima due to the tremendous amount of wasted light we put out.
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The mayor of this tiny Idaho town is fighting light pollution. Welcome to the U.S.'s first Dark Sky Reserve.
We are getting close to the opening of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing celebration with the Armstrong Air and Space Museum. The following is the flyer with all the dates, times, and places of our Stargazing Events.
We need everyone's help in all the events with the Museum and Libraries this special year. Library dates and times will come shortly. Please contact the LAS when you can volunteer to help.
PROGRAM CHANGE FOR TONIGHT We won't be doing the Starships Program. Only the Interactive Solar System program.
The two brightest planets close in the early morning sky Tuesday morning.
Watch Venus and Jupiter get close in the dawn sky on 22 January – Astronomy Now
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Watch Venus and Jupiter get close in the dawn sky on 22 January By Ade Ashford 21 January 2019 Ade Ashford Find a location that offers you an unobstructed view of the south-southeast horizon around 1½ hours before sunrise on 22 January 2019 to see the close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter. The ...We did get the Eclipse on the TV in the meeting room last night. Thanks for all the work on that Michael. We still have some things to figure out with the camera and software, but making progress. We also had a visitor with limited mobility take advantage of not having to climb the stairs to the dome to view something. I hope others saw the eclipse from home. David Humphreys