An amateur astronomy club
CMAS welcomes The Damariscotta River Association’s membership to the January 2015 star party at DRA. This will be much like the star parties CMAS has hosted for schoolchildren, except that the guests will be about fifteen of DRA’s mostly adult members. When DRA’s Sarah Gladu requested our assistance, CMAS jumped at the opportunity, in thanks … Read more
Taking a cue from other clubs around New England, new for the year 2015, CMAS expands from being purely a club of observers into one that meets also to hear the most interesting speakers on astronomy that Maine has to offer. Rather than cancel oh-so-often due to bad weather, we will meet regularly to discuss … Read more
By the time the clouds cleared after the last storm, the Geminids had pretty well passed. From the darkest part of my in-town neighborhood, I saw exactly one meteor last Sunday Night, December 14, 2014, at around 11:00pm. It was bright, but left a somewhat short trail as it whizzed below Orion. Did anyone see … Read more