Re: NYC Events 2/2 Dec 4/ 5

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Thu - 28 Dec
19:00 - Bethany - CT - A S of New Haven mtg
Yale Univ, Bethany Obsy. Free. www.asnh.org, prez@xxxxxxxx
20:00 - Westport - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Dec 6
21:00 - Piscataway - NJ - clearsky starviewing - see Dec 12

Fri - 29 Dec
19:30 - Cranford - NJ - Amat Astro Inc meeting - see Dec 1
20:00 - Stamford - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Dec 1

Sat - 30 Dec
11:00 - Central Park - MH - science workshop
Urban Park Rangers. Belvedere Castle, Use of cameras to
photograph the Park. Free, bring camera. www.nyc.gov/parks
20:00 - Southold - LI - Custer Inst meeting - see Dec 2
20:00 - Paramus - NJ - Buehler-Columbia A A A lecture - see Dec 2

Sun - 31 Dec
13:00 - Ft Greene Pk - BK - cultural lecture
Urban Park Rangers. Ft Greene Vstr Ctr. History and
culture of park. Free. www.nyc.gov/parks

General News
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December is usually a lean month due to the yearend closings of
many meeting places. This year, because of the growing use of NYC
Events by astronomy and space orgs, I have a full table of events.
There's more about December. This issue of NYC Events may be the
EARLIESST one ever issued! By November 24TH, I captured ALL of the
routine events, plus several extra astronomy events, plus a generous
selection of cultural events. Do know that NYC Events can NEVER be
'complete' because there will ALWAYS be some item that I didn't learn
of until after the column is issued. Don't worry. An event I learn of
too late for NYC Events, it goes into the NYSkies Yahoogroups forum.
NYC Events greets two new members: Institute for Strings,
Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University and
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium at Rutgers University. The former
are on certain Fridays in Pupin Hall; latter, certain Wednesdays in
Physics Lecture Hall in the Piscataway campus. While these meetings
can be of extreme elevation in content, NYC Events is studied by
campus and lab astronomers who can follow the discussions.
NYU has several series of physics lectures. I carried the one that
meets on Wednesdays, that being the one I knew of. The physics
department notes that Friday series is more suited for my readers.
Their topics are specificly for astronomy and astrophysics.
If your group's activity calendar ends in December, it's time to
update it for readers looking for your 2007 events. Don't out your own
readers in the dark when the ball falls in Times Square. They should
ring in the new year with your 2007 event schedule in hand.

Event news
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Allies in Space threw open its doors on Saturday 4 November at
12:30! About 140 spacefaring folk poured in, including large numbers
of National Space Society and NYSkies members!! They heard FOUR
speakers. In addition to Whitesides, Hill, and Tyson, Larry Price came
on board to present an animation of Lockheed-Martin's Orion lunar
vehicle. The four sat in panel to field some tough questions from the
audience. Every one cheered at the closing bell and flowed out into
Fifth Avenue with about 20 door prizes.
On Monday, November 6th -- changed from the 9th -- the Intrepid
museum ship was supposed to move from its home at Pier 86, North
River, to Bayonne, New Jersey, for a 2-year overhaul. The ship, a WW
II aircraft carrier, was pulled by five tugboats and, uh-oh, got
jammed in silt and mud around its stern! A myriad of spectators around
the ship cheered, then groaned. Intrepid and US Navy are studying the
situation for a new attempt in the spring.
On November 9th I attended a Commuity Board 8 meeting in Yorkville
to hear that district's concerns about luminous graffiti. It freaks
out darksky fans in Rest-of-World that a 'town' (Yorkville is all of
280,000 inhabitants) can spontaneously express disapproval for
luminous graffiti. It blows them away that the town on its own motion
takes action against luminous graffiti. Yet, here in the City,
it is so routine in the City that I have admit being a bit blase'.
So on that evening of the 9th I heard that the board and a merchants
group are removing offensive outdoor lighting along 86th St, the main
street of Yorkville. They applied for -- and got! -- beautification
funds to 86 the cobrahead streetlights and replace them with star-
friendly bishopcrools!
NYSkies will work with CB8 to exchange progress reports from other
nabes on Manhattan. With a bit of effort, the Upper East Side may
rival the Upper West Side in having a continuous canopy of star-
friendly lighting right into midtown.
Adorama camera shop had on November 19th a Meade Day. Mike Dzurny
of Meade demoed a dozen scopes covering his company's product line in
the store's newly redone 5th floor astronomy room. Adorama has
Celestron Day on December 3rd. This takes place hours before the
Pleiades occultation! Will you watch it with a brand-new Celestron
optic? Theme days for other manufacturers come in 2007.

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