Join us for the October 2025 monthly meeting of the Las Vegas Astronomical Society at the Dale Etheridge Planetarium. This event is free and open to the public. (Just show up!) We start at 7:30.
Note: FB incorrectly shows the location as an on-campus restaurant. See details at the end of this event post for details on where to go, and where to park for free.

This month, LVAS Club President Mig Ponce will take us on a tour of Earth's biggest telescopes. We'll trace how ground-based observatories evolved from early mountain mirrors, such as the legendary Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory, to today's networked, data-driven giants. We'll see why these are important counterparts to space telescopes, and how their "terra firma" strengths power discoveries across the spectrum. And we'll talk about the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its "movie of the sky" approach to time-domain astronomy. We'll then look ahead at the next generation of optical and radio giants and what they can reveal.