On Saturday, July 22, 2017, CMAS returns to the crown jewel of the Eastern part of the realm. The wonders of Galaxy Quest are well known. Dark skies over a gentle hillside sloping down to the Atlantic Coast astride mountains. Jacob’s 18″ Big Dob coaxing formerly faint fuzzies into real objects in the eyepiece. Saturn…

CMAS has been invited to assist at MARS, The Maine Astronomy Retreat, to be held in late July, 2017, at Medomak Camp. This is a week-long event hosted by an editor of “Sky and Telescope Magazine,” held in the comfortable accommodations of a classic Maine summer camp. It caters to people who need to travel…

Last night (Sunday, July 16, 2017), the Earth was, indeed, buried in a ferocious electromagnetic storm, so there almost certainly was Aurora Borealis over Maine. Alas, at least for those of us in the Western part of CMAS’s realm, the clear skies promised in the forecasts were replaced by pea-soup clouds. The Aurora was thus…