November NYC Events 6/ 8

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               Amer Mus Natl Hist. $40 fee. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Tue - 25 Nov - 19:00 - Greenwich - CT - clearsky starviewing 
               Astro Soc of Greenwich. Julian Curtis Elem 
               Schl. Cancelled for clouds. Free. 
               www.geocities.com/astrogreenwich

Wed - 26 Nov - 19:30 - York Coll - QN - clearsky starviewing 
               Room 2E01. Cancelled for clouds. Free. 
               natsci.york.cuny.edu/~yco, 718-262-2082 

Wed - 26 Nov - 20:30 - Old Westbury - LI - Astro Soc of LI meeting 
               NY Inst of Techy, Schure Audm. Free. www.asliclub.org 

Wed - 26 Nov - 21:00 - Poughkeepsie - NY - clearsky starviewing 
               Vassar Coll Obsy. Free. Cancelled for clouds. 
               physicsandastronomy.vassar.edu/observatory.html, 
               845-437-7340 

Fri - 28 Nov - 18:00 - R Moses St Pk - LI - clearsky starviewing 
               Amat Obsrs Soc. Free, cancelled for clouds. Permit reqd 
               at 631-669-1000. www.aosny.org.

Fri - 28 Nov - 19:00 - Cranford - NJ - Amat Astro Inc lecture 
               Union Co Coll, Sperry Obsy. Indoor talk, clearsky 
               starviewing. Free. www.asterism.org 

Fri - 28 Nov - 20:00 - Stamford - CT - clearsky starviewing 
               Stamford Mus & Natr Ctr, Obsy. Free. Cancelled for 
               clouds. www.stamfordmuseum.org/astronomy.html 

Sat - 29 Nov - 18:00 - R Moses St Pk - LI - clearsky starviewing 
               Amat Obsrs Soc. Free, cancelled for clouds. Permit reqd 
               at 631-669-1000. www.aosny.org.

Sat - 29 Nov - 18:00 - Southold - LI - clearsky starviewing 
               Custer Inst. Cancelled for clouds. Free. 
               www.custerobservatory.org 

Sat - 29 Nov - 20:00 - Liberty - NY - clearsky starviewing 
               Catskills Astro Club. Walnut Mountain Pk. Cancelled
               for clouds. Free. www.catskillsastro.org. 

No Events - Off Season 
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 Cadman Pz - BK - clearsky starviewing - Bob Little, 718-855-7804
 Carl Schurz Pk - MH - clearsky starviewing - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Carl Schurz Pk - MH - clearsky Sun viewing - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Freeport - LI - Amat Obsrs Soc lecture - www.aosny.org 
 Jenny Jump St Pk - NJ - Utd Astr Clubs NJ mtg - www.uacnj.org 
 Stony Bk - LI - Earth & Spc Sci lecture - www.ess.sunysb.edu/astro 
 Voorhees St Pk - NJ - clearsky sunviewing - www.njaa.org 
 Washtn Xing - NJ - clearsky starviewing - www.princetonastronomy.org 

General news 
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    Some events are within a property, typicly a museum, that has an 
admission fee. The 'free' or '$xx' charge noted in NYC Events is that 
AFTER getting into the host property. 
    Some parks where specific public sessions are held are also used by 
stargazers on other dates under stipulations set by each park. BEFORE 
availing of the park for such extra stargazing, learn from the contact 
about these stipulations. If the park finds you on its grounds outside 
of public sessions without satisfying its terms of use, you may be 
removed from the property. This admonition is a fallout from the 
ongoing revision of access to various lands across the country. 
    The NYSkies calendar section and NYC Events now are essentially 
congruent. An event missed in NYC Events or or an existing one has 
substantial change, it is tagged with '(CLICK)'. The event's details 
and contact are behind your mouse click. Print the calendar in 
landscape mode to avoid clipping off the far right days. 
    I let go of one club's activities for being beyond the commuting 
range of New York. The South Jersey Astronomy Club holds all of its 
events in the far southern part of New Jersey. I started to include it 
from an address for the club in Elizabeth NJ, well within the City's 
sphere. It turned out to be merely where one officer lived. 

Skywatching 
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    The weather eased up with many clear nights interspersed among the 
cloudy and rainy ones. We continue to watch Venus, in November in more 
open sky away from the Sun. The ecliptic is starting to tilt up, 
raising Venus out of the skyline. Already we're getting tingly about 
the transit in next June! 
    Mars is still bright, in Aquarius, more or less south at 
nightfall. His disc is shrinking a bit too much for small scopes and 
many of us are shifting to following him by eye and binocular. 
    The sky was most adverse for the flyover of China's human 
spaceship Shenzhou-5 in the owl and morning hours of Wednesday 19 

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