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    19:00 - Greenwich - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Mar 14
    19:30 - Holbrook - LI - Science Club of LI meeting 
          Sachem Publ Liby. 'Greatest scientific discoveries on Long 
          Island '. Free. www.sciencecluboflongisland.com, 
          631-421-1523, info{at}sciencecluboflongisland.com 
    21:00 - Poughkeepsie - NY - clearsky starviewing - see Mar 1

Wed - 29 Mar 
   17:30 - Sci Ind Biz Liby - MH - cultural lecture 
          'From bricks to clicks' GIS websites for NYC. Free. 
          212-592-7000, www.nypl.org/research/sibl 
    19:30 - Amer Mus Natl Hist - MH - Isaac Asimov Meml Debaate
          LeFrak Thtr. 'Universe: one or many?' on modern cosmonomy. 
          $14 adm. www.amnh.org/programs, 212-769-5100 
    20:00 - Westport - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Mar 1 
    20:30 - Old Westbury - LI - Astro Soc of LI meeting - see Mar 1 
    20:00 - Middletown - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Mar 8

Thu - 30 Mar 
    18:00 - Danbury - CT - astronomy lecture - see Mar 11
    19:00 - Bethany - CT - clearsky starviewing
          Astro Soc of New Haven. Bethany Obsy. Free. www.asnh.org, 
          prez{at}asnh.org 
    19:00 - Upr Montclair - NJ - clearsky starviewing - see Mar 2
    20:00 - Westport - CT - clearsky starviewing - see Mar 1 

Fri - 31 Mar 
    14:00 - CUNY Graduate Center - MH - science show 
          'Robot dance competition' HS students show off robots.
          Free. web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp, 212-817-8215 
    19:00 - Cranford - NJ - Amat Astro Inc meeting - see Mar 3
    19:30 - Stony Brook - LI - astronomy lecture - see Mar 3
    19:30 - Wilcox Pk - NY - clearsky starviewing 
          Mid Hudson Astro Assn. Free, cancelled for clouds 
          mhaa.whodeanie.com. 845-485-5669, trankin{at}hvc.cc.com 

General News
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    I got generally good thanks for leaving out the spaces between 
entries within each day. The indenting alone seems enough to separate 
the entries. The only minor comment I got is that some readers skim 
down the page NEXT TO THE HOURS for the event location. The spaces 
between entries did help to show them better than now with the entries 
compacted. Comments are wanted and welcome. 
    Two upstate astroclubs may have suffered a glitch. Catskills Astro 
Club's website is out of service during compilation of NYC Events and 
Orange County Astronomers still has a 2005 calendar of events on its 
website. (Orange's meeting in the February NYC Event swas mistakenly 
copied from this ediurnatte calendar.) 
    Two Boots Theater, East Village, has several films and videos of a 
scientific slant; please check out its website. I give here the first 
of them on Sunday 5 March as an example. 
    Earth Institute and Lamont-Doherty Observatory, both at Columbia 
University, have a score of astro-related meetings in March. I put in 
only a few as samples.
    There are many cultural tours in March, most requiring outdoor 
exposure. Please be mindful of winter conditions in New York City 
during the month. What may be fun to walk thru for shopping, visiting, 
commuting could be devastating on an extended outdoor tour. 
    Astronomical Society of Toms River Area meets in the Fine Arts hal 
of Ocean County College for its Feb thru May 2006 meetings., not in 
the college's Novis Planetarium. 
    A spinoff of February's NYC Science and Engineering Fair was an 
uptick of debate about science education in the City. There is 
substantial validity that formal science schooling at the primary and 
secondary level has serious shortcomings, not only in the City but 
thruout the NYSkies territory. Yet at the adult plane, the City 
supports a vigorous, thriving, vivid science interest, evidenced by 
the constant stream of NYC Events entries for places outside the usual 
science circles. 

Event news 
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    The NYSkies Seminar continued its lively discussions of astronomy 
news, with a lively and stable attendance on February 2nd and 16th. On 
February 16th the Seminar featured its first film show, narrated by 
Claudio Veliz, on the solar eclipse in Baja California in 1991. That 
was the Big One of the 20th century which many NYSkiers -- before 
there was a NYSkies! -- witnessed. Between chews of good donuts and 
coffee, we discussed, besides the film, chemistry of hydrocarbons in 
space and use of astronomy journals and trade newsletters. 
    The mega events of February were the annual NYC Science & 
Engineering Fair at City College and the Greenwich Village Antiquarian 
Book fair. The fair was called off, as explained in  'Sky news'. Fair 
was rescheduled, and convened, on the 26th for a successful run. 
Winners of that compo go into the fair on March 15th at the Marriott 
hotel in Boro Hall, Brooklyn. 
    The Greenwich Village book fair was a smashing event with several 
NYSkiers grabbing up fascinating items of astronomy. I myself found a 

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