An amateur astronomy club
The Acadia Night Sky Festival begins soon! CMAS will be there with the 16″ mirror from Brower Observatory in its traveling Dob mount, along with all the telescopes our members bring. Whether you attend for one day or several, the public needs you for stargazing at night and solar viewing during the day. If you … Read more
The star party originally scheduled for DRA, the Damariscotta River Association, this coming Saturday, August 19, 2017, at 8:00pm, is hereby cancelled. In the three days since asking whether anyone would attend it, many members have responded saying they would be away chasing the eclipse, and none have said they wished to attend.
With most of CMAS’s active observers away during the eclipse, we have not arranged for our club to host an event of its own. A possible exception could be CMASian telescopes congregating at the boardwalk in Hallowell, Maine. If the weather is so cloudy in South Carolina that Brian Murphy stays home, he will be … Read more