Stargazing weekend nearish to NYC
October 5, 2014 7:18 AM Subscribe
Does such a place exist with three or four hours driving from NYC? Searching for a bed and breakfast with a telescope (that works and is pointed at something?) and a hot tub?
If not, can you suggest an awesome place with
If not, can you suggest an awesome place with
I don't know of a place like this in New England. As you might guess, a big problem is weather; you can only observe if it's clear and the number of clear nights in New England is pretty small.
An alternate option would be to try to find a nice B&B in a pretty area with a local college that offers observing. Most New England liberal arts colleges have campus observatories that are open for public observing. For example, Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, Smith College in Northampton, MA (the other four colleges in the Amherst/Northampton area offer observing, too), Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, Yale in New Haven, CT, or Bennington College in Bennington, VT (for Bennington, the Eddington House Inn is supposed to be very nice).
However, with all of these places, the weather is a big wild card. It is more often cloudy than not for observing and it's something that is totally unpredictable a week out (and is often unpredictable even the morning of). There's a reason that all the observatory B&Bs are in Arizona.
If you don't manage to get observing done up here in New England, you can always go to Columbia's Public Observing when you get home.
If you have any questions, send me a message; as you have probably guessed, I have significant personal experience with many of these observatories.
posted by Betelgeuse at 6:45 PM on October 5, 2014
An alternate option would be to try to find a nice B&B in a pretty area with a local college that offers observing. Most New England liberal arts colleges have campus observatories that are open for public observing. For example, Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, Smith College in Northampton, MA (the other four colleges in the Amherst/Northampton area offer observing, too), Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, Yale in New Haven, CT, or Bennington College in Bennington, VT (for Bennington, the Eddington House Inn is supposed to be very nice).
However, with all of these places, the weather is a big wild card. It is more often cloudy than not for observing and it's something that is totally unpredictable a week out (and is often unpredictable even the morning of). There's a reason that all the observatory B&Bs are in Arizona.
If you don't manage to get observing done up here in New England, you can always go to Columbia's Public Observing when you get home.
If you have any questions, send me a message; as you have probably guessed, I have significant personal experience with many of these observatories.
posted by Betelgeuse at 6:45 PM on October 5, 2014
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