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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Hello CMAS,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br>There was a meeting of the Acadia Night Sky Festival steering committee this afternoon. Many events for a festival were considered for this unusual year from showing movies outdoors (the state won’t allow it without fixed seating spaced 6‘ apart; lawn chairs not allowed) to the evening Star Sightseeing bo</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>at cruises (too low capacity with social distancing to even pay for fuel.) The only event left will be the regular ANP Stars Over Sand Beach laser sky tours (limited to 50 people, socially spaced.) All star parties are cancelled (too much risk from touching of focusers and eyes to eye pieces.) The National Park Service pulled out of the Seawall Star Party last summer and the Cadillac Mountain Star Party was cancelled in February before the Pandemic started. Visitors are invited to enjoy the dark skies of Acadia but the 2020 Acadia Night Sky Festival is officially cancelled. An official announcement will be put up on the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.acadianightskyfestival.org">http://www.acadianightskyfestival.org</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>web site, shortly.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>---Dwight</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>-- Celebrating the starlit skies of Maine & New England --</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br>Dwight M. Lanpher</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>Club Liaison</i></span><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>P.O. Box 472, 1 Summit Road<br>Northeast Harbor, ME 04662</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>President: Penobscot Valley Star Gazers<br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#7F7F7F'>Member: Dark Sky Main member , member International Dark Sky Association</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#7F7F7F'>Illuminating Engineering Society Member Emeritus</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#7F7F7F'>AAS, ACAC, ASNNE, ATMoB, BSIA, CMAS, COG, DEAA, GAAC, NHAS, NSAAC, PVSG, SMA</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>Telephone: (207) 276-5350</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>"Good friends are like stars. Although you may not see them you know they're always there." -Christy Evans</span><span style='font-family:Palatino'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>