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Amer Mus Natl Hist. $40 fee.

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 -
Carl Schurz Pk - MH - clearsky Sun viewing -
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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