Venus: Our Misunderstood Sister

Here’s a very recent image composed of frames taken at the Galaxy Quest Observatory in Lincolnville. We’ve been working on getting the observatory back up and running after various equipment failures and software glitches. All the images that were used to make this final image were taken robotically, without the intervention of humans! The final…

We got clouded out last week, but are on for tonight (Saturday, January 20, 2018)! This star party has two parts: 5:00pm — Meet at Sarah’s Cafe in Wiscasset for dinner. Sarah’s is downtown at the end of the bridge. Please, join us, even if this is your first star party. 6:00pm, or maybe 6:30pm…

A visitor from New York City will be in the St. George / Rockland at the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 10 through 12, 2015. If anyone can recommend a good, dark field in one of those towns, please respond. Perhaps dark fields are not so hard to come by in this…

Here is the perfect astronomical event for a cold winter’s night. Contrary to the usual best practice in astronomy, it will be clearly visible through a window, from inside one’s house. The view would be better from outside, but better to see two bright objects well enough through a window, than to allow tonight’s subzero…

This message happily confirms that we shall meet tonight, Saturday, March 25, 2017, at 7:30pm, at DRA, the Damariscotta River Association’s Land Trust. Do not be fooled by an afternoon of dense clouds! Forecasts uniformly predict that the clouds will clear at sundown, or shortly thereafter. Saturday, March 25, 2017, 7:30pm Damariscotta River Association 110…

  A turning point in a long career in astrophotography, this is our Treasurer’s first attempt at solar imaging. It was shot through a Grasshopper Grey Point camera aimed through a Lunt 80 Solar Scope, single stacked, and is comprised of 90 stacked TIFF images processed in Registax and Photoshop. I always marvel that the…