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*NY Acady of Sci - - - - - www.nyas.org
 NY SolarFest  - - - - - - 24 and 25
 North Jersey Astro Gp - - 14
*Observing Group - - - - - 24
 Orange Co Astro Assn  - - 10, 17
 Peace Vy Natr Ctr - - - -  9
 Promised Land St Pk - - - 15
*Recent Astro Semnr  - - -  8, 22
 Robert Moses St Pk  - - -  9, 10, 16, 17
*Rockefeller Univ  - - - - www.rockefeller.edu.
 Rockland Astro Club - - - www.rocklandastronomy.com
 Rutgers Univ  - - - - - -  8, 22
 S*T*A*R - - - - - - - - - www.starastronomy.org
*Sci Ind Biz Liby  - - - - XX
 Sheep Hill Astro Assn - -  4, 16
 Shelter Is star party - - 17
*SI Community TV - - - - -  6
 Stamford Mus & Natr Ctr -  2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 Stonehenge sunset (MH)  - 10 thru 12
 Summer Star Party - - - -  9 thru 18
 SUNY New Paltz  - - - - - www.newpaltz.edu/see/colloquim_series.html
 SUNY Stony Brook  - - - - www.ess.sunysb.edu/astro, 631-632-8100
 Tamanend Pk - - - - - - - 23
 Utd Astro Clubs of NJ - -  3, 10, 17, 24, 31
 Valley Forge N H P  - - - 24
 Vanderbilt Planetarium  - XX
 Vassar C - physicsandastronomy.vassar.edu/observatory.html, 845-437-7340
 Ward Pound Ridge  - - - - 17, 27
 Washington Xing Pk  - - -  2, 30
 Waterfront Park - - - - -  1, 8, 15, 22, 29
 Wesleyan University - - - 10
 Westchester Amat Astro  -  9
 Westport Astro Soc  - - -  7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29
 Wilcox Park - - - - - - - 16
*York College  - - - - - - natsci.york.cuny.edu/~yco, 718-262-2082

General News
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    Given the ever-present chance that your club's established regimen
of club meetings may shift, by season or circumstance, the one single
most effective strategy is to addiurnate your website. Do state
purposefully that there are no sessions in July (for example), rather
than simply break off the list of meetings at the end of June.
    I know -- thanks to you contributors! -- that at times it's tough
to line up your meetings enough ahead for the following month's
calendar. In such cases, it may be well to invite visitors to contact
your club about these missing meetings.
    An other feature to watch out for is the 'rule' for your meetings.
'We meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month.' Do you? Perhaps you
normally do or you try to. Exceptions will butt into your neat scheme.
That's why it's best to go and tabulate the specific meeting dates, no
matter how clear the rule seems to be.
    Lo! I have in hand an instance of a rule derailed. Staten Island
Community Television's 'Astronoomy Forum' runs on the 'first Monday of
every month'. The first Monday of July is the holiday for Independence
Day; the studio is closed. The show alerted that for July it runs on
Tuesday the 6th.
    Way to go! Else, I would have put in the Monday date, following
the rule, or hesitate and put in that dreaded 'XX' entry. These tips
not only reduce the 'XX' entries for your club in my NYC Events. They
make your club more welcoming to your members and newcomers. Try them!
    The Long Island Space Society moved its website in June. The new
one is at www.nsschapters.org/ny/longisland, following the pattern for
other National Space Society chapters.
    A new series of starviewing opened during June at Vear Mountain
State Park. Run by NYSkier Frank Schmidt,  there'll be one or two
session every month on certain Saturdays. The single session in July
is on the 17th.
    Custer Institute has two sea-faring starviewings. On the 17th is a
starparty on Shelter Island as part of a weekend kids camp. On the
30th is a harbor cruise with naked eye and binocular viewing.

Special events
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    Governors Island is now open for regular public visits! They run
every day except Sunday and Monday thru September 2004. Please be
aware that the Island is wholly lacks conveniences and necessities,
being that it was an abandoned and partly decayed military base. You
are confined to the walks and paths with no entry permitted into any
of the structures.
    Mind, too, that tickets for the ferry are sold ONLY at the Seaport
Museum, a kilometer north in Water Street from the ferry depot. You
MUST have the ticket in hand to board the boat; there are NO tickets
distributed at the depot.
    Governors Island rewards you with utterly enchanting views of the
harbor and Lower Manhattan. Can Governors Island be a future star
viewing site? Perhaps! It has few local lights and is at least a full
kilometer away from major luminous graffiti on the waterfront. What's
more, despite the hodge-podge of buildings, there is open land for

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