STAR PARTY AT SALT BAY FARM IN DAMARISCOTTA
Saturday, January 21, 2023
4:30 sunset before full darkness by 6:15pm
Salt Bay Farm, 110 Belvedere Road, Damariscotta, ME 04543
Join us tonight for clear skies at Salt Bay Farm! The news from the good folks at Coastal Rivers Conservancy is that the kiosk with the big floodlights has been moved, so it will no longer bother us. The Mark Harry Dob will be there, along with a new, experimental, low-power, wide-field eyepiece. To make the night complete, CMAS needs only you!
WEATHER
Tonight is the new moon, so it will be plenty dark. As often happens after a storm leaves the area, the skies will be free from clouds. Seeing and transparency will be roughly typical for Central Maine. But, temperatures will be COLD – certainly in the low twenties, or maybe into the teens. Dress warmly!
People are welcome to set up as early as they like, which may be easier in daylight. Given the cold, some may want to arrive nearer to dark, so as to endure the freeze only during prime viewing hours. I may be among them, but will arrive to open the building certainly in time for dark.
