Viewing the Sun with Solar Telescopes

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Saturday, June 28, 2014, Time and Location to Be Announced (Maybe) After Professor Bering’s talk, and just one week after the Summer Solstice, we hope to gather the clan to observe the Sun. Bring your Hydrogen Alpha, Calcium-K, or white-light solar telescopes, if we can find a place to gather. Better yet, bring just yourselves, … Read more

CMAS Flash Star Party at Bombahook Estates

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Flash star party tonight, Saturday, May 31, 2014, at Brian Murphy’s House! Arrive after 7:00pm. Note this is *not* one of CMAS’s usual observing sites, but is new to us: 8 Sunrise Drive, Hallowell, ME 04347 Sunrise Drive is in Bombahook Estates, across from the Cohen Senior Center off Town Farm Road. Brian’s is the … Read more

CMAS Brower Star Party — Cancelled

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We are canceling this month’s star party, because the weather forecasts are too convincing of clouds all weekend. How we wish we could offer a star party under clear skies, or even the first of the new “iffy” parties under iffy skies, but we can not. Stay home and dream of all the beautiful sights … Read more