Central Maine Astronomical Society

This spectacular comet is even brighter than predicted and is easy to find! About an hour after sunset, on a clear night, look in the west. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be not too far above the horizon and just a hair to the south (left) of where the Sun set. It can be seen . . . → Read More: See Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

Recently, CMAS received an email from long-time CMASian Naveen, who had attended star parties regularly, but stopped abruptly when he left Maine some years back. In the years since, his work had taken him all over the United States, including to many locations famed for their dark skies. Nowhere else, he found, compares with Maine, . . . → Read More: Visiting From Missouri for the Love of Dark Skies