Star Party Friday at Brower

By popular request, CMAS now has a Facebook Group. To join, simply search Facebook for “Central Maine Astronomical Society,” or follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/475695055925182/ The Facebook Group will allow CMAS to network with a large cadre of like-minded people, attracting both guests to our star parties and new, permanent members. That’s the power of Facebook’s…

The weather *still* looks promising for tomorrow night’s star party! THE LIST SO FAR From the RSVPs received so far, it looks as though we will have a suitable crowd of astronomers, if one slightly smaller than last week’s. A few of us had other commitments this weekend, but this will still bring enough eyepieces…

The weather is looking dim for a star party this month at DRA, whether on the official date (this Saturday, January 13, 2018) or the rain date (Saturday, January 20, 2018). Sometimes, the weather changes significantly in just a few days, but it rarely bucks a longer-term trend of steady clouds with precipitation. If skies…

On the weekend of February 1st, 2014, there will be no star party Saturday or Sunday night, due to expected clouds, snow and rain in Lincolnville. Everything else is cancelled along with this: no business meeting, no lunch, no dinner. We’ll save those for a time when we can gather for a star party! The…

Monday, April 10, 2023 Arrive 7:00pm or later 6 Beaver Drive, Litchfield, ME 04350 Your host, Lenny Arsenault, is not one to waste a rare night of ideal, cloudless, moonless skies. He and Colin have tweaked the Trischiefspiegler to perfection. CMAS’s latest and most unusual telescope allows the rare combination of high-resolution at high magnification…

Recently, CMAS received an email from long-time CMASian Naveen, who had attended star parties regularly, but stopped abruptly when he left Maine some years back. In the years since, his work had taken him all over the United States, including to many locations famed for their dark skies. Nowhere else, he found, compares with Maine,…