Re: NYC Events November 8/ 9
From: JOHN PAZMINO (john.pazmino_at_relaynet.org)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:24:17 -0400
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General News
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There are two major changes in NYC Events for November. First I
put the table of sponsors and events at the top and renamed it 'Index
of events'. I watched you flip the pages of previous issues to get at
this table first and then flip back to dig into the calendar.
The other change copes with runaway success. NYC Events is
growing, thanks to your attention to get your events into it! For
repetitive events (typicly starviewing at the same site), each
instance is listed. However the full entry is under only the FIRST
date. The other dates have a skeleton entry referring back to this
first date.
Event news
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The Starry Nights jazz show at the Hayden Planetarium really took
off as a 'watering hole' for local astronomers and space advocates!
The session on October 1st attracted seven of us and we hosted three
new visitors! You'll find us around a cocktail table with a 'NYSkies'
and 'National Space Society' sign on it. Come over and say 'Hi!'.
I normally don't include unscheduled events. However, there is one
that over the last several months rose up to a major starviewing
campaign on Manhattan. With the November0December issue of S&T's Night
Sky magazine, this newer activity shines out as a beacon for city-
based astronomers elsewhere.
On most clear evenings, and I remind that there are no preset
dates, several local astronomers gather on the perimeter path around
Great lawn in central park. that's right, THE Central park on
Manhattan. Deep within the park you're shielded from the ground
clutter of lights and can dark adapt enough to achieve 4th to 4-1/2
magnitude transparency.
On the best nights the transparency dips to near 5th magnitude.
Now, bear in mind that this is realized in the center of Earth's
superconurbation, the poster-child for the light pollution movement,
the mother of hellholes for home astronomy.
This team, of NYSkiers and others, lets passerbys view the stars
with their scopes. If you are convenient to Central Park, within
walking distance or a short train ride, swing by Great Lawn in
clearsky twilight and look for the gaggle of astronomers.
Sky News
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Hurricane Jeanne sweeped out the summer haze and moisture over New
York City in early October. The sky on October 6th was dark and clear
enough to give the City its first Milky Way sighting of the year.
(There was no sighting at all in the spring season.) Parts reported
were the Scutum cloud and a reach in Cygnus.
After that feat, the weather turned sour with rain and cloud for
most of the month. However! On the night of the lunar eclipse, 27
October, the sky was clear, tho not perfectly so. We all had wonderful
views of the pretotality phases and the early totality. From the City,
the Moon was a brownish tint, more than red or orange, yet the major
craters were plainly seen on her disc under the Earth's shadow.
Then, whump!, out of the west and northwest rolled in a dense
cloud front. It covered the Moon in mid totality and hid her until the
late egress partial phases. By then it was nearing or touching
midnight, so most of us were ready to call it a night.
City News
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What can I say? The boston Red Sox played damn good baseball and
won the American league pennant from our yankees all on the level. The
tam made history for being the first to capture the pennant after
losing the first three games of the set.
There's more. The Red Sox hadn't won a World Series since 1918 --
86 years ago! -- in what was the 'curse of the Bambino'. Well, they
not only conquered the St louis cardinals, but did so by taking the
Series in a sweep of four games! hence, this bunch of players from
Beantown won EIGHT STRAIGHT games for the pennant and Series!!
And finally for the message in the stars. This last game, game $4,
in St Louis was the ONLY World Series game played under a lunar
eclipse! During the game, television cameras showed the eclipse in the
lulls between plays.
Now, the Red Sox and Cardinals BOTH wear the color red. This [sort
of] red eclipse could have been an omen for either team. As it turned
out, the final out, the one clinching the Series for the Red Sox was
made JUST as the umbra started sliding off of the Moon!!!
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