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    11:00 - Ft Totten - QN - cultural tour - see Oct 1

    15:30 - New York University - MH - Natl Space Soc meeting
          32 Waverly Pl. Ask at service desk for room. Bring photo ID
          for campus security. Free. www.nsschapters.org/ny/nyc,
          nssnyc{at}aol.com.

    18:00 - Danbury - CT - astronomy lecture - see Oct 6
          NOTE EARLIER HOUR; 18:00, NOT 18:30

    19:00 - Ward Pound Ridge - NY - clearsky starviewing - see Oct 8

    19:00 - Southold - LI - clearsky starviewing - see Oct 8

    19:30 - Great Kills Pk - SI - clearsky starviewing
          Enter from Hylan Bv to model airplane flying field. Free,
          cancelled for clouds. darksky1{at}msn.com, www.aaa.org,
          718-494-1370

    20:00 - Bear Mt St Pk - NY - clearsky starviewing - see Oct 1

    20:00 - Southold - LI - Custer Inst meeting - see Oct 1

    20:00 - R Moses St Pk - LI - clearsky starviewing - see Oct 7

    20:00 - Paramus - NJ - Buehler-Columbia A A A mtg - see Oct 1

    20:00 - Jenny Jump St Forest - NJ - Utd A Cs of NJ mtg - see Oct 1

    20:30 - Voorhees St Pk - NJ - NJ Astro Assn meeting - see Oct 22

Sun - 30 Oct
    02:00 - whole City - MH - return to Eastern Standard Time
          Set clocks BACK, BEHIND, one hour. Note that the hour
          01:00-02:00 repeats, once in EDST and again in EST.

    14:00 - Ft Totten - QN - cultural tour - see Oct 2

Mon - 31 Oct
    18:00 - CUNY Graduate Center - MH - science lecture
          'Voodoo science in the age of intelligent design'. Free.
          web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp, 212-817-8215

    20:00 - Willowbroook - SI - clearsky starviewing - see Oct 17

General News
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    This month is surely the BIGGEST NYC Events in history! The
increase comes mainly from the cultural events of Open House new York
on October 8th and 9th. This is a Roman circus of tours and visits at
over a hundred well-known -- and many lesser-known -- points of
interest thruout the City. I was going to list a few selected places,
but ALL are so fascinating and exciting, I listed all of them.
    An other cause for the enlarged NYC Events is the resumption of
walking tours by the NYC Urban Park Rangers. With the heat and
humidity of summer gone, it's feasible to be outdoors exploring
various parts of the City.
    I include very special citywide events. In past months there was
the notice about the Swinging Bridge flood alert, searching of bags at
transit stations. Now comes the chaotic closings of certain IRT
stations in Lower Manhattan. This derives from the reconstruction of
the South Ferry station. In brief, this is a loop track that is too
short and constricted for today's traffic and train length. The new
station is a stub terminal with straight and longer tracks.
    The transition from summer to winter schedules completes in
October. Lectures in recess are starting up; observing sessions wind
down for the frostbite weather.

Event news
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    The high point of September with the premiere of the new IMAX
movie 'Magnificent desolation' on September 23rd. Plans for the
opening were finalized in early September. Not a worry. NYSkiers
learned of it thru the NYSkies forum, the place for late news,
reminders, details, updates, Several NYSkiers joined the NYC chapter
of National Space Society at the Sony IMAX in Lincoln Square to watch
Apollo astronauts explore the Moon. I posted a commentary on the film
in NYSkies.
    NYSkiers got their all-in-one briefing about the proximity and
opposition of Mars at the NYSkies Astronomy Seminar. This was a repeat
of the talk I gave on August 4th, which suffered a low attendance from
the obscene summer air. Leftover handouts were given out at the Mars
Society of New York;s meeting on September 28. This is an other extra
event announced in NYSkies.
    The Hayden Planetarium celebrates its 70th birthday on Sunday the
2nd! There will be a slide show on the old and new facilities, stories
and anecdotes, and a birthday cake for all to feast on. It's free with
the regular Museum admission.

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