An amateur astronomy club
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Conditions are favorable tonight, Sunday, July 16, 2017, for seeing aurora borealis from Maine. As of this afternoon, the Earth is already subjected to a strong geomagnetic storm. Maine is, already, supposedly exposed to an aurora that we can not yet see, while sunlight obscures the sky. After nightfall, look north. Find a hill or … Read more