Welcome to the astronomy of New York
    NYSkies is the support group for home astronomy in the New York cosmopolitan area. This is substantially the commuting ring around the City, out to about 100 kilometers from the Empire State Building, plus all of Long Island. We are incorporated in New York State as 'NYSkies Astronomy Inc', a not-for-profit organization.
    NYSkies is not a club in the usual sense, but a service and resource for other clubs and individual astronomers. We do not recruit members, altho our supporters are commonly referred to as such. We, therefore, neither collect nor solicit dues. We receive continual and generous donations, to which you are graciously welcome to add.

www.nyskies.org
    We inaugurated our website on 29 August 2007 and unveiled it on September 1st. It is under construction with content and links not yet complete. The site will build out in the coming days with links to our services, reader articles, major astronomy resources.  
    General inquiries are received at 'nyskies@nyskies.org'. You may continue to email us at 'nyskiesastronomy@earthlink.net', which will stay active for the indefinite future. Voice us at 212-273-5958.
    Please mind  that we are at 'www.nyskies.org'. There is an other website with '.com', not '.org', that has absolutely no relation to NYSkies Astronomy Inc. It is a private site for a person in upstate New York that happens to have some astronomy items on it. We  in July 2008 advised the site owner of the potential mixup and asked that he insert a link to us.

NYSkies Astronomy Seminar
    The NYSkies Astronomy Seminars are a round table free-form discussion for current astronomy topics. They convene in St Paul's Lutheran Church, 315 West 22nd Street, near 8th Avenue, in Chelsea, Manhattan. Welcome signs are posted at the entry gate.
    Sessions are on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month, year round. They are free and open to the public. They start at 7PM and wind down by 9PM. There are no cancellations except by overwhelming circumstance, like a transit strike or storm evacuation.
    NYSkies offers feature lectures in the summer months between school semesters, when most other astronomy lectures in and around the City are on recess. Occasional lectures are presented during the school months as the opportunity permits.
    A fuller description is HERE.

NYSkies Yahoogroup forum
    We run a free public discussion group in the Yahoogroups system, the only open soapbox for New York astronomy. You may join by clicking HERE to open your email program. Just do 'send' without entering subject or text. Any that you do enter is ignored by Yahoogroups.
    Within a couple hours, you'll start receiving the letters from other NYSkies supporters and may reply to them, or enter your own new ones, via email.
    You may also join thru the Yahoogroups website. If you already are in the Yahoogroups system, for other discussion fora, click HERE. In the logon screen, enter your Yahoogroups name and password, then do 'join' to meld in the NYSkies forum. If you not be a Yahoogroups registrant, go thru the signup process as instructed by the logon screen.  

RASC Observer's Handbook
     NYSkies once again offers the RASC Observer's Handbook at deep discount to astronomers in the US. The damage, of only $20 per copy, includes pack & post to you. 
    The offer for the 2009 issue is NOW OPEN as at 15 September 2008. Please request your copy thru the coupon HERE.
    If you are from an astronomy club you may consider filling your member requests thru NYSkies, as explained HERE.

Starviewing in the City
     NYSkies offers starviewng in Central Park, Manhattan, and Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn. The Central Park series is operated by a colleague group Top of the Lawn on  clear weekend nights thruout the year. Details HERE. 
    The Floyd Bennett Field series is run in conjunction with the National Park Service once per month in the spring and fall. The current schedule is HERE.
    Sessions at both sites are cancelled for clouds.

GLOBE at Night
    NYSkies, as part of its role in Night Sky Network, participated in the GLOBE at Night round for 2008. Assessments of constellation Orion were made, in accordance with the GLOBE at Night procedure, from 2008 February 25 thru March 8. In spite of erratic weather, useful data were collected from the Top of the Lawn site in Central Park and a couple other places around the City.
    Articles about the preparation for and summary of the NYSkies contribution in this year's GLOBE at Night are in process. They will be issued in the Articles section when completed.

Allies in Space
    In collaboration with the National Space Society, New York City chapter, NYSkies hosted the annual Allies in Space conference to promote the exploration and observation of outer space. This year's theme was the 50th anniversary of the Sputniks, the first artificial satellites that opened the space age.
    The show was on Saturday 3 November 2007 at 12:30PM in the CUNY Graduate Center. The event was free and open to the public, New York's only such event for this anniversary. Details are HERE and a souvenir flyer is HERE.

Astronomy services
    We facilitate and cooperate with other astronomy centers and individuals in the advancement of New York astronomy. Examples include, with links for additional details (links are in assembly now and may be inactive at the instant):

        Earth Day, 2008 APRIL 18-19
        Northeast Astronomy Forum, CURRENT ONE
        Allies in Space,  CURRENT and PREVIOUS one
        New York Space Society (NYC chapter of National Space Society). Details HERE.

Collaborate for public astronomy outreach with NASA-JPL and ASP in their Night Sky Network.

NYSkies Astronomy Inc is now a member of the NASA/JPL:

Details HERE.

Articles by NYSkies supporters. Browse, read, print them HERE