CMAS will host its first Radio Astronomy Star Party on the weekend of November 2, 2013, beginning at 7:00pm. (Arrive earlier to set up.) Meet at DRA, the Damariscotta River Association: 110 Belvedere Road, Damariscotta, ME 04543 Bring your optical telescope, of course, but also enjoy radio astronomy with Nimesh Patel, CMAS’s resident professional radio…
Greetings from The Bearer of Evil Tidings! We’re canceling tonight’s star party at DRA, due to weather reports for lots of clouds, high humidity, and rotten transparency. Looking at various weather maps, thick banks of clouds are hovering just offshore. If the winds push those clouds just a few miles north, the sky will not…
Whether the weather for the star party at Damariscotta River Association on Saturday, October 5th, at 7:00pm? The conflicting predictions say either that it will be cloudless, but so humid as to keep the hair driers busy, or so cloudy as to nearly completely hide the sky. That does not sound encouraging, but predictions can…
