Located at Buckley Homestead, about 1 mile south of the barnyard, is the Calumet Astronomy Center. The center includes the Northwest Indiana Robotic (NIRo) Telescope and the Thomas Conway Observatory.
Observatory address: 19100 Chase St, Lowell, IN 46356
Lake County Parks & Rec is lucky to call the Calumet Astronomical Society a partner, and they host regular events at Thomas Conway Observatory. Each event is contingent upon clear weather. Program cancellation will be updated at casonline.org.
2022 Astronomy events
Monthly open houses will last 3 hours.
| June 25 | Welcome Summer
| sunset 8:29PM | 8:30-11:30PM
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| July 30 | Clusters and Nebulae | sunset 8:10PM
| 8:30-11:30PM |
| August 12 | Perseid Meteor Shower | sunset 8PM
| 8-11PM |
| August 27 | Return of Andromeda | sunset 7:32PM
| 8-11PM |
| September 24 | Welcome Autumn | sunset 6:44PM
| 7-10PM |
| October 29 | Jupiter and Saturn | sunset 5:49PM
| 6-9PM |
| November 26 | Double Cluster | sunset 4:22PM | 5-8PM |