On April 28, 2017, the children of Chop Point School will be having a sleepover on their fantastically beautiful campus, on a peninsula at the confluence of the Kennebec River, Chopps Creek, and Merrymeeting Bay. Let’s gather in force to give them a star party they will remember forever! (Astronomers will not want to leave,…

That Friday night when Colin opened the dome in celebration of exceptional seeing was among the most memorable in my years of observing. Among other treats, we toured the dense fields of galaxies in and around Leo. Objects that would have been too faint to see well popped in the eyepiece. Most notable was a…

Mark your calendars! CMAS’s observing schedule is based on the celestial clockwork of the Saturdays surrounding each month’s New Moon, so the schedule can be planned far into the future. We do not yet have locations for most of these, but those details should be available soon. CMASian road warriors who travel to wherever we…