CMAS member Michael Kosowsky has written a superb eclipse simulator for his Web site, HeyWhatsThat.com. Because a transit shares all the same mechanics with an eclipse, albeit with a tiny planet instead of a big Moon able to block the Sun, we are forever spared the need to be in the right place at the…
SkySafari is among the best software for putting a planetarium on your phone or computer. As a beginner, I used it and similar software to learn the constellations. I still use software for finding objects, having never bought paper charts. This is really something for everyone, and it’s on sale now. Anyone with an iOS…
The Transit of Venus on Tuesday, June 5, begins for us in Central Maine at 6:03pm, and continues out of our sight well past sundown. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you miss this transit (or, horrors! if clouds hide it), report to the meeting of the Central Maine Astronomical Society hereby scheduled for the…
