Popping The Big Bang

**JOHN PAZMINO** · #**661** January 1st 07, 07:50 PM posted to sci.astro

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**JOHN PAZMINO** · #**662** February 6th 07, 01:59 AM posted to sci.astro

NYC EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2007
--------------------------
John Pazmino
NYSkies

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The following astronomy activities in the commuting ring enclosing
New York City are operated by various organizations. A few cultural
items of special importance to City astronomers may be included.
Altho NYC Events confirms the listed items, they are subject to
change by their sponsors. Check with their contacts. Let the sponsor
of an event you attend know that you learned of its event thru NYC
Events.
You may ask for the next NYC Events thru the NYSkies email
address, above, if you're not yet in the forum.
For events which missed NYC Events, check the NYSkies Yahoogroup
forum. Join NYSkies by sending email to 'nysky-subscribe @
yahoogroups.com'.
All hours are Eastern Standard Time.

Index of events
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Dates for events; contact if no events
--------------------------------------
BROOKLYN - BK
Floyd Bennett Field - - - www.aaa.org, ,

CONNECTICUT - CT
A S of Gtr Hartford - - - 21
Astro Soc of Greenwich - 7
Astro Soc of New Haven - 27
Bethany Observatory - - - 23
Boothe Meml Astro Soc - - 2, 16
Bowman Observatory - - - 13, 27
CT Tripoli Rocketry Assn 4
Mattituck Astro Soc - - - 15
Peabody Museum - - - - - 1-spring 2007
Stamford Observatory - - 2, 9, 16, 23
Van Vleck Observatory - - 7, 14, 21, 28
Western CT St Univ - - - 1, 10, 15, 24
Westport Astro Soc - - - 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28

LONG ISLAND - LI
Amat Obsrs Soc - - - - - 4
Astro Soc of Long Is - - XX
Brookhaven Natl Lab - - - 21
Caumsett St Histrcl Pk - www.aosny.org,
Custer Institute - - - - 3, 10, 17, 24
Long Island bookfair - - 10
Natl Space Soc-LISS - - - chapters.nss.org/ny/longisland,

Robert Moses St Pk - - - 9, 10, 16, 17
Science Club of Long Is - 15, 26
SUNY Stony Brook - - - - 2
Venderbilt Museum - - - - 1-indef
Vanderbilt Planetarium - XX

MANHATTAN - MH
92nd Street Y - - - - - - 1, 7, 8, 25
Amer Mus Natl Hist - - - 1-Aug 19, 1-indef, 10, 13
Astronaut Farmer movie - 23
Automated Parking Systems 12
Cafe' Science - - - - - - 12
Cafe' Scientifique - - - 6
Columbia Univ Obsy - - - 2, 23
Columbia University - - - 7, 14, 21, 28
Cornelia St cafe' - - - - 4
Courant Institute - - - - 7, 21. 28
CUNY Graduate Center - - 1, 27
Earth Institute - - - - - 7, 8
Galileo's Birthday Gala - 7
Goddard Inst for Spc Std 16, 23
Grand Central station - - 1-6
Greenwich Vg bookfair - - 23-25
Hayden Planetarium - - - 6, 20, 27
Inst Strings, Cosmology - 2, 9, 16, 23
Julia Miles Theater - - - 1-11
Lwr Manh-Bklyn DT subways 1-indef
Natl Space Soc-NYC - - - 3
NY Acady of Sciences - - 2, 27
New York Unearthed - - - 11
New York University - - - 2
NYSkied - - - - - - - - - 1, 15
Red Room Theater - - - - 1-24
Rockefeller University - www.rockefeller.edu, 212-327-8000,

Sci Ind Biz Liby - - - - 12, 27

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**JOHN PAZMINO** · #**663** February 6th 07, 01:59 AM posted to sci.astro

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Top of the Lawn - - - - - XX

NEW JERSEY - NJ
A A A of Princeton - - - 13
A S of Toms Rv Area - - - 9
Amat Astro Inc - - - - - 2, 9, 16, 23
Buehler-Columbia AAA - - 3, 10, 17, 24
Metra Rocketry Assn - - - 1
Morris Museum Astro Soc - 8
New Jersey Astro Assn - - 24
Natl Space Soc-NJN - chapters.nss.org/nj/njn,
North Jersey Astro Gp - - 1, 8, 14, 15, 22
Ocean Co Coll - - - www.ocean.edu/campus/planetarium, 732-255-0343,
Princeton Univ Obsy - - - 13
Princeton University - - 1-May 1, 6, 13, 20, 27
Rutgers University - - - 7, 14, 21, 28
S*T*A*R - - - - - - - - - 1
Schommer Observatory - - 8, 22
Sheep Hill Astro Assn - - 4
Sheep Hill Observatory - 16
Utd Astro Clubs of NJ - - www.uacnj.org
Washington Xing Pk - - - www.princetonastronomy.org, 609-737-2575,

PENNSYLVANIA - PA
Bucks-Mont Astro Assn - - 7
Delaware Vy Amat Astro - 9
Lackawanna Astro Soc - - 6
Lehigh Vy Amat Astro Soc 11

QUEENS - QN
Alley Pond Park - - - - - 17
Corona yard & shop - - - 24
Museum of Moving Image - 1-Apr 15
NY hall of Science - - - 1-25
York College - - - - - - 14

STATEN ISLAND - SI
Coll of Staten Is - - - - 24
Great Kills Park - - - - , www.aaa.org,
718-494-1370
SI Community TV - - - - - 5

THE BRONX - BX

UPSTATE - NY
Anthony Wayne Rec Area - www.rocklandastronomy.com, 201-768-3298,
,
Bear Mountain St Pk - - - 718-468-8087, ,
www.aaa.org
Catskills Astro Club - - 10, 17
Lamont-Doherty Obsy - - - 16, 23
Lwr Hudson Vy Challr Ctr 18
Mid-Hudson Astro Assn - - 20
Orange Co Astro Assn - - XX
Swinging Bridge dam - - - 1-indef
Vassar College - - - - - 7, 14, 21, 28
Ward Pound Ridge - - - - 17
Westchester Amat Astro - 2
Wilcox Park - - - - - - - 16

List of events
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XXX - XX Feb
DATE NOT SET; INQUIRE AT CONTACTS
---------------------------------
19:00 - Centerport - LI - Astro Soc of LI meeting
Vanderbilt Plm. Indoor talk, clearsky starviewing. Free.
www.asliclub.org,
20:00 - Chester - NY - clearsky starviewing
Orange Co Astro Assn, Deis Obsy. Free, cancelled for clouds.
www.ocastronomy.org, , 845-641-2672
20:30 - Old Westbury - LI - Astro Soc of LI meeting
NY Inst of Techy, Schure Audm. Free. www.asliclub.org,

XXX - XX Feb
20:00 - Central Park - MH - Top of the Lawn meeting
OCCASIONAL SESSIONS; INQUIRE AT CONTACTS
Informal gathering of local astronomers on perimeter path
on north side of Great Lawn. Free, cancelled for clouds.

Thu - 1 Feb
all day - Grand Central station - MH - furnished waitng room
Thru Tue 6 Feb. IRT 42nd St, Grand Central. Furnished
waiting room on platform with couch and floor lamps. Free.
all day - Lwr Manh-Bklyn DT - MH - subway reconstruction
Every Sat & Sun. Indefinite duration. Many Lwr Manh and

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SUNY Stony Brook, Earth & Spc Sci Hall. Indoor lecture,
clearsky starviewing. Free. www.ess.sunysb.edu/astro,
631-632-8100,
20:00 - Stratford - CT - Boothe Meml Astro Soc mtg
Boothe Meml Pk, Obsy. Free. www.bmas.org,
20:00 - Columbia University - MH - clearsky starviewing
Pupin Hall, 13th floor & rooftop. Free, cancelled for
clouds. www.astro.columbia.edu/outreach, 212-854-3278,

20:00 - Yonkers - NY - Westchester A A meeting
Hudson Rv Mus, Andrus Plm. Free.
www.westchesterastronomers.org,

20:00 - Stamford - CT - clearsky starviewing
Stamford Obsy. $3 adm, cancelled for clouds.
www.stamfordmuseum.org/astronomy.html,

Sat - 3 Feb
15:30 - New York Univ - MH - Natl Space Soc-NYC meeting
Silver Hall, 32 Waverly Pl. Free, bring photo ID for campus
secuirty. chapters,nss.org/ny/nyc, ,
19:30 - Cranford - NJ - Amat Astro Inc meeting
Union Co Coll, Sperry Obsy. Indoor talk, clearsky
starviewing. Free. www.asterism.org,
20:00 - Paramus - NJ - Buehler-Columbia A A A lecture
Bergen Commty Coll, Buehler Obsy. Free.
www.bergen.edu/buehler, . Sun - 3 Dec
20:00 - Southold - LI - Custer Inst meeting
Custer Inst. Free. www.custerobservatory.org,

Sun - 4 Feb
12:00 - Bethany - CT - CT Tripoli Rocketry Assn meeting
Bethany Town Hall. Free. www.ctra-narconn.org, 860-583-1690
13:15 - Uniondale - LI - Amat Obsrs Soc meeting
Nassau Commty Coll, Bdg F, Room 123. Free. www.aosny.org,

18:00 - Cornelia St Cafe' - MH - Entertaining Science show
29 Cornelia St & W 4 St, 'Mirror, mirror, , on th wall'
handedness in nature and life. $10 adm.
www.corneliastreetcafe.com, 212-989-9319
19:30 - Boonton - NJ - Sheep Hill Astro Assn meeting
Boonton Town Hall. Free. www.uacnj.org/clubs/shaa.htm,

Mon - 5 Feb
19:30 - Mariners Harbor - SI - live audience science show
SI Commty TV, 100 Cable Way, Studio 2. Free.
www.sictv.org, 718-727-1414

Tue - 6 Feb
16:15 - Princeton - NJ - astronomy lecture
Princeton Univ, Peyton Hall. Free.
www.astro.princeton.edu/events.htm,

18:30 - Hayden Plm - MH - Virtual Universe
Live skyshow of computer graphics and astro databases.
$12 adm. 212-769-5100, www.amnh.org/programs
19:30 - Fleetville - PA - Lackawanna Astro Soc meeting
Keystone Coll, Cupillari Obsy. Free. ,.
members.aol.com/sabiajohn/LAS.html Wed - 8 Nov
19:30 - Rialto Restaurant - MH - science lecture
265 Elizabeth St & Prince St. 'Cafe' scientifique'
discussion on various science topics. Free + own meal.
www.sciencecafenyc.org,

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**JOHN PAZMINO** · #**665** February 6th 07, 01:59 AM posted to sci.astro

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Wed - 7 Feb
15:30 - Courant Institute - MH - science lecture
251 Mercer St. Various topics in geophysics and Earth
science. Free. caos.cims.nyu.edu,
16:15 - Columbia University - MH - astronomy lecture
Pupin Hall, Rm 1332. Free. 212-854-3278,
www.astro.columbia.edu/outreach,

16:45 - Piscataway - NJ - science lecture
Rutgers Univ, Physics Lecture Hall. Free. 732-445-3974,
www.physics.rutgers.edu/colloquium
18:00 - Columbia University - MH - science lecture
Earth Inst. Favulty House. President's Room. 'Man, nature,
and climate change'. Free. ,
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu,
19:00 - 92nd St Y - MH - science lecture
Lexington Av & 92 St. 'The missing link' based on newly
found fossil fish. $30 adm. www.92y.org, 212-415-5500
19:00 - The Chemists Club - MH - science show
40 W 45 St. Sci Writers in NY. 'Galileo Birthday Gala'
reception for Galielo's astronomy/physics. $35 adm, adv
regn reqd. www.swiny.org.
19:30 - Greenwich - CT - A S of Greenwich meeting
Bruce Museum. Free. ,
www.geocities.com/astrogreenwich, 203-896-6786-x338
20:00 - Middletown - CT - clearsky starviewing
Wesleyan U, Van Vleck Obsy. Free, cancelled for clouds.
www.astro.wesleyan.edu, www.asgh.org, 860-872-9069,
Thu - 2 Nov
20:00 - Doylestown - PA - Bucks-Mont Astro Assn meeting
Peace Valley Natr Ctr. Free. www.bma2.com,
, 215-579-9973
20:00 - Westport - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 1
21:00 - Poughkeepsie - NY - clearsky starviewing
Vassar College, Observatory. Free, cancelled for clouds.
physicsandastronomy.vassar.edu/observatory.html,
845-437-7340

Thu - 8 Feb
16:00 - Columbia University - MH - science lecture
Earth Inst. Lerner Hall, 5th fl. 'Response to disasters'.
Free. ,
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu,
19:00 - 92nd St Y - MH - science lecture
Lexington Av & 92 St. 'Judaism, science, and God'
develpments in the postEinstein era. $25 adm. www.92y.org,
212-415-5500
19:30 - Morristown - NJ - Morris Mus Astro Soc meeting
Morris Museum. Free. 973-386-1848, ,
http://www.morrismuseum.org/static/e...onomical.html-
20:00 - Westport - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 1
20:00 - Upr Montclair - NJ - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 1
21:00 - Piscataway - NJ - clearsky starviewing
Rutgers Univ, Schommer Obsy. Free, cancelled for clouds.
732-205-0020, www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/ast-serin.html

Fri - 9 Feb
14:00 - Columbia Univ - MH - ISCAP meeting - see Feb 2
14:30 - New York University - MH - astronomy lecture - see Feb 2
19:00 - Toms River - NJ - Astro Soc of Toms Rv Area mtg
Ocean Co Coll, College Ctr, Cafeteria. Free.
www.astra-nj.org, 732-255-0343, Thu -
19:00 - Plymouth Meeting - PA - Delaware Vy A A meeting
Gtr Plymouth Commty Ctr. Free. dvaa.org,
19:30 - Cranford - NJ - Amat Astro Inc meeting - see Feb 2
20:00 - R Moses St Pk - LI - clearsky starviewing
Amat Obsrs Soc. Parking field #2, Free, cancelled for
clouds. www.aosny.org,
20:00 - Stamford - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 2

Sat - 10 Feb
09:00 - Melville - LI - Long Island bookfair
Hilton Hotel, Rt 110. Source of astronomy books, prints,
maps. $6 adm. 631-261-4590, www.flamingoshows.com,

10:00 - Amer Mus Natl Hist - MH - Hall of Evolution open
1st floor. Spitzer Hall of Human Evolution opens
after major upgrade. Free with mus adm, incl mus adm.
www.amnh.org/programs, 212-769-5100
17:00 - Danbury - CT - astronomy lecture
Western Connecticut St Uv, Plm/Obsy. Free.
www.wcsu.edu/starwatch, 203-837-8671,
19:00 - Allentown - PA - Lehigh Vy A A S meeting
LVAAS HQ, South Mt. Free. www.lvaas.net,
20:00 - Paramus - NJ - Buehler-Columbia A A A lecture - see Feb 3
20:00 - Southold - LI - Custer Inst meeting - see Feb 3
20:00 - R Moses St Pk - LI - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 9

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**JOHN PAZMINO** · #**666** February 6th 07, 01:59 AM posted to sci.astro

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18:30 - Danbury - CT - clearsky starviewing
Western Connecticut St Uv, Plm/Obsy. Free, cancelled
for clouds. www.wcsu.edu/starwatch, 203-837-8671,

19:15 - College of SI - SI - clearsky starviewing
Astrop Obsy. Free, cancelled for clouds. 718-982-2818,
,
supernova7.apsc.csi.cuny.edu
20:00 - Paramus - NJ - Buehler-Columbia A A A lecture - see Feb 3
20:30 - Voorhees St Pk - NJ - NJ Astro Assn meeting
NJAA-HQ, Robinson Obsy. Free, indoor lecture, clearsky
starviewing. www.njaa.org, 908-368-8600
20:00 - Southold - LI - Custer Inst meeting - see Feb 3

Sun - 25 Feb
19:00 - 92nd St Y - MH - science lecture
Lexington Av & 92 St. 'Evolution and survival' how various
races cope with common diseases. $25 adm. www.92y.org,
212-415-5500

Mon - 26 Feb
19:30 - Holbrook - LI - Sci Club of LI meeting
Sachem Liby. 'Evolution by nature versus inteligent
design'. Free. www.sciencecluboflongisland.com,
631-421-1523,

Tue - 27 Feb
16:15 - Princeton - NJ - astronomy lecture - see Feb 6
17:00 - NY Acady of Sci - MH - science lecture
'Gulf Stream and Europe's anamalous warmth' $20 adm + opt
dinner, adv regn reqd. www.nyas.org, 212-838-0230
17:30 - Sci Ind Biz Liby - MH - cultural lecture
'The last lone invntor' history of television
Free. 212-592-7000, www.nypl.org/research/sibl
18:30 - Hayden Plm - MH - Celestial Highlights
Live skyshow of current evening sky. $12 adm.
212-769-5100, www.amnh.org/programs
18:30 - CUNY Grad Ctr - MH - science show
'Flight' play reading. Free. web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp,
212-817-8215, ,
19:00 - Greenwich - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 13
19:00 - New Haven - CT - A S of New haven meeting
Yale Uv, Geology Hall. Free. www.asnh.org,

Wed - 28 Feb
15:30 - Courant Institute - MH - science lecture - see Feb 7
16:15 - Columbia University - MH - astronomy lecture - see Feb 7
16:45 - Piscataway - NJ - science lecture - see Feb 7
20:00 - Middletown - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 7
20:00 - Westport - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 1
21:00 - Poughkeepsie - NY - clearsky starviewing - see Feb 7

General News
----------
The website for Westchester Amateur Astronomers revived in January
2007. same address. In mid January the website for United Astronomy
Clubs of New Jersey suffered an outage. It returned a 'forbidden
access' error. By month's end it was back in operation.
There are numerous updates for contacts. Please look at those you
are fixing to use. Don't assume they're the same from previous months.
With a surge in new readers of NYC Events, many not familiar with
ersatz NYSkies geography, I now note the state abbreves against the
corresponding districts in the 'Index of Events' section.
Cold Spring harbor Lab leaves NYC Events for having too few
routine events for our readers. Of course, when it does offer an
interesting activity, I will include it as a special item.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies reminds that it can not
receive walkin attendees for its lectures. Please contact GISS on the
day before the session to be entered on the admittance list. Also, be
sure to have GI photo ID, like a driver's licence, current valid US
passport, federal employee badge.
There are many items this month about evolution its relation to a
god. These are important themes for astronomers, both home and campus,
in the ongoing contention between education based on objective science
and that based on belief or faith.
I had to let go of the NYC Urban Park Rangers this month. Its
website went thru alterations that now omits too many of the seven
W's. While they can be recovered thru other parts of the website, it
was too fiddly and frittering. Such degraded promotion hurts me
because the Urban Park Rangers do run very warmly appreciated cultural
cultural events, plus several astronomy ones! I'll work with the
Rangers for possibly rearranging their event webpages.
The New York City and Long Island chapters of National Space
Society are also known as New York Space Society and Long Island Space
Society. These names endore from the time before the clubs became NSS
chapters. You may see them under either the legacy or chapter names in
their litterature.
I combined the entries for IRT and Lower Manhattan subway work
into one 'Lwr Manh-Bklyn DT' entry. The reconstruction on transit

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**JOHN PAZMINO** · #**669** February 6th 07, 01:59 AM posted to sci.astro

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facilities by YE2006 got so intertwined that a disturbance on one
line creates havoc on many others. In general, expect travel to or thru
Brooklyn Downtown and Lower Manhattan to be disrupted every weekend.

Event news
--------
Please remember that events at the New York Academy of Sciences
convene at its new offices in 7 World Trade Center. The old home on 63
St and 5 Av was sold off.
The NYC chapter of NSS, by a late change in early January, had its
January meeting on the 20th, not the 6th. The club sent out a notice,
passed along to the NYSkies Yahoogroup forum.
The NYSkies Seminar on January 4th was Happy Perihelion Day. No
special feature, like banners or balloons, but an extra ample
selection of refreshments. The session on the 18th covered cosmology
and evolution with a full attendance under threat of snow later that
night. It did snow after midnight with shallow accumulation that
sublimed by mid morning on the 19th.
Lower Manhattan was evacuated on 2007 January 23-25 because of a
lethal virus that wiped out the human race. Only one person survived.
OK, this was really a shoot for new sci-fi movie 'I am legend'. The
scenes of mass exodus from Manhattan over Brooklyn Bridge and FDR
Drive were filmed in South Street Seaport and Brooklyn Bridge area.
The City's first of annual bookfairs ran on January 26-27 at the
69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Av and 25-26 St. Announced in early
January, it was attended by several NYSkiers. who feasted on its many
astronomy books. The next major bookfair is the Greenwich Village
fair. Long Island gets its first bookfair of the year on February 3rd.
Columbia University Observatory has TWO sessions in February! The
one on February 2nd is a postponement from January. That on February
23rd is the regular scheduled session.
A new space-theme movie 'Astronaut farmer' opens on February 23 at
various cinemas in the City. By Warner Brothers, it's about a former
NASA engineer, now a farmer, who builds his own spaceship.
The NYSkies Seminar on February 1st hosts NYSkier Claudio Veliz on
'Observatory design on steroids'. He discusses the considerations,
traditional and newly emerging ones, in planning an observatory
structure.

Sky News
------
The NYSkies region saw about the warmest ever December and it
looked like it would see a very warm January. January did start off
with spring temperature in the 20Cs. But!, as if to 'get things
right', the air froze up in the last week of the month. Temperatures
fell to the -10 to -15C!! Despite this, the month saw essentially no
snowfall. It did flurry a bit on the 9th with no accumulation.
Dustings of snow fell on several days there after but with no enduring
ground cover. Thus, January 2007 scored the latest snowfall on record,
breaking the old one for 4 January 1878.
Generally cloudy, yet mild and calm, weather hampered routine
stargazing in early January. By mid month, we had runs of sparkling
clear skies. But, alas, the weather shifted from abnormal spring to
typical winter. The night of January 25-26 enjoyed transparency deepen
to fully 5th magnitude thruout the City -- with a 1st quarter Moon in
the sky! -- and also a deepened freeze down to -15C.
NYSkiers and other astros had good views of the Moon-Venus
conjunction on January 20th under clear chilly skies. The Moon had
strong earthshine with many landmarks visible on the night side of the
globe.
Comet McNaught was a tough object for the City. A run of clear
nights helped immensely to allow brief views, with bare eye, of the
comet in strong evening twilight. Its rapid southward track soon
carried it both angularly and linearly away from the Sun, causing it
to fade rapidly. By the 20s of January it was out of view from us.
The meteorite that landed in a Freehold NJ house on January 2nd
was exhibited at Rutgers University Geological Museum. The one-day
show, on Saturday the 27th, was mobbed by about a thousand visitors,
including several NYSkiers from New Jersey. The iron-nickel rock is
only the second meteorite found in New Jersey, the first being in
1829. That was before meteorites were recognized as having celestial
origin!

NYSkies
-----
Astronomers are exploiting NYSkies as a quick, handy, friendly, and
potent source of astronomy news relating to the City. And there is
LOTS of astronomy stuff going on around New York! Since it revived on
28 September 2001 (it was interrupted by World Trade Center) NYSkies
became the definitive forum and public record for matters bearing on
home astronomy in and around New York.
Joining NYSkies is easy. Send an empty email to this /Yahoogroup
maillist at '. Its posts are sent to
you in your email and you post to it by email. It's that simple!
Or you may go to 'groups.yahoo.com/group/nysky'. If you are already
signed up with Yahoo, you go and sign in and then 'join' NYSkies. If
not, you have to go thru a silly 'registration' that's a one shot
chore, valid for all groups you may eventually join. The files area of
NYSkies are accessible only thru the website.

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