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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 … Read more

Saturday night, July 11, 2015, CMAS will meet for a flash mob star party at Brower Observatory in North Whitefield. Conditions are expected to be good to very good, depending upon which predictions one believes. Setup at 8:30pm would allow plenty of time to get organized under fading sunlight prior to nightfall. Saturn will be … Read more

Whatever the weather, be sure to peek through the clouds tonight! Venus and Jupiter are in conjunction, at only 0.3º apart. “Sky and Telescope” describes this as “about the width of a chopstick at arm’s length.” There is no magic to a conjunction; it’s just a chance alignment, from our point of view, of objects … Read more