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York, or just let me mail the book to you.
    By end November, we got only a few left, thanks to the quick and
early response. Our allotment in years past sold out by mid to end
December, so please get your request in NOW, like TOMORROW MORNING, to
avoid gross disappointment.
    The year closes with the first leapsecond in seven years! It's
added to the last minute of the year, 23:59 on December 31st. That
minute has 61 seconds. The leapsecond is part of the City's New Year's
Eve celebration. The leapsecond is inserted worldwide at 23:59 UTC,
but most places add it for civil purposes at their own local last
minute. For New York, the extra second prevails since 19h EST, so we
are for the intervening five hours one second ahead of UTC.

City news
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    This section, as explained for September, is discontinued. It is
now a separate article 'AAA news'.

NYSkies
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    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 'nysky-subscribe{at}yahoogroups.com'. 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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