The Inwood Astronomy Project is a community outreach effort for Northern Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. In celebration of The International Year of Astronomy in 2009, The Project will lead 100 Nights of Astronomy in our local parks, libraries, schools and community centers. Our goal is to get 5000 New Yorkers to look through a telescope in our parks. Our neighborhood is a great New York success story. It is ethnically and racially diverse, which gives our little neck of the woods a vibrant feel. We hope you come join us on one of our many Starry Nights Shows or take in one of our Astro101 Classes at the New York Public Library, Inwood Branch. The stars know no boundaries of race or ethnicity, so we are reaching out to all our neighbors to join us under the night sky.

Our main location at Inwood Hill Park:

It's Official!
The Inwood Astronomy Project is officially part of the International Year of Astronomy. Jason even took the idea to America's governing body of Astronomers at the meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on June 2, 2008. Jason will be reporting his results of getting the word out and helping educate Inwood residents in a paper presented in 2009. His proposal for 100 Nights of Astronomy was met with great interest by Astronomy educators and professional Astronomers alike. One of the central goals of the IYA is to get one million people worldwide to look through a telescope that have never looked through one before. We hope to get 5000 people to look through them in 2009 in our neighborhood. If we can do that, we will exceed the results of any other outreach program in the US. Think big, New York! Come on out and see what is up!

Click here to read the abstract from the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.










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