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…

Wednesday, September 4, 2024; 8:00PM Brower Observatory, 341 Route 126, Whitefield, ME 04353 Google Maps Plus Code: 6C5Q+MVV Whitefield, Maine So many Saturday nights have been lost to bad weather that the remarkably fine forecast for Wednesday night prompts CMAS to host an impromptu star party. We anticipate perfectly clear, steady skies. This will be…

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,…