Postponed: Brower Star Party

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Star Party at Brower Observatory ??? Saturday, November 3, 2018, 6:30pm (6:00pm setup) ??? 341 Route 126, Whitefield, ME 04353   Possible Flashmob: Sunday, November 4 Rain Date: Saturday, November 10   We hear ya thinkin’: “Star party on Saturday, or even Sunday, bah! We’re cloud watchers and kite fliers, not star gazers.” CMAS sympathizes…

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…

For Central Maine, the times for the occultation on Monday, January 13, 2025, are: 9:29:52pm — Occultation begins (Mars touches the Moon before vanishing behind it) 10:44:38pm — Mars reappears (the edge of Mars is first seen emerging) For the hour-and-a-quarter in between these times, Mars will be behind the Moon. In the days of…

The Central Maine Astronomical Society has an opportunity to host a flash mob star party at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop, Maine, at 8:00pm on the first clear night of Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, July 20, 21, or 22, 2015. Once we held a star party, there would be no further parties, even if following nights…

The Gods of the Clouds have obliged us to cancel the star party that had been scheduled for tonight (Saturday, June 29, 2019) at Josh Zukerman’s Foss Hill Observatory in Rome. The possibility of partly clear skies has degenerated into expectations for scattered thunderstorms, dense clouds, and high humidity. Last week’s first star party at…