Saturday Stargazing on Long Island

Saturday Stargazing on Long Island
Special Saturday Event: Aug 16 8:00PM-12:00AM
Custer Institute & Observatory, Southold NY

All are welcome!
$5 Donation Per Person to Custer

Special Event:
CUSTER INSTITUTE & OBSERVATORY
1115 Main Bayview Rd
Southold NY 11971
PO Box 1204
Southold NY 11971
+1 (631) 765-2626
[custerobservatory@gmail.com](mailto:custerobservatory@gmail.com)
https://www.custerobservatory.org/

· Event is subject to change for weather. Check website calendars and Meetup pages for various groups for updates and changes.
· Bring $5 donation to Custer. Optionally, bring food, soft drinks, and folding chairs.
· Diya is the Point of Contact, reachable at [diya@nycatheists.org](mailto:diya@nycatheists.org) and +1 (929) 251-3570. Call, don’t text.
· Meet at various pick up points for a ride to Southold NY. Email Diya to arrange for a ride or offer a ride.
· So far, there are 4 pick up points from Kips Bay (Manhattan), Jamaica Hills (Queens), St George Ferry Terminal (Staten Island), and unknown (Brooklyn). Space is limited.

Our friends at various groups are cross-posting this event.

Humanist Happy Hour
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
http://bsec.org/calendar-3/
https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn-society-for-ethical-culture

Drinking Inquisitively
Center for Inquiry – NYC Branch
https://cfi-nyc.org/
https://www.meetup.com/cfinyc/

Humanist Happy Hour
The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism
https://citycongregation.org/events-calendar/

FTI: Thinkers Multi-group BYOB potluck
Free Thinkers Institute
https://www.freethinkerinstitute.org/events/
https://www.meetup.com/freethinkerinstitute/

Live DWA
Gotham Atheists
https://gothamatheists.org/
https://www.meetup.com/GothamAtheists/

Humanist Happy Hour
New York Society for Ethical Culture
https://ethical.nyc/events
https://www.meetup.com/ethicalnyc/

NYC Atheists In-Person Meeting
https://nycatheists.org/calendar/
https://www.meetup.com/nycatheists/

Cross-group Happy Hour at Ethical Culture
Secular Humanists Society of New York
https://www.shsny.org/events-calendar
https://www.meetup.com/shsny-org/

RULES for In-Person Meeting:

1. GROUP PROMOTION: Each group may bring flyers or posters advertising membership, donations, and meetings.
2. DRINKING: Bring your own booze should be limited to beer and wine, no hard liquors. Everyone should drink responsibly and don't get sloshed. Save the hard drinking for the after parties in outside bars.
3. RESPECT FOR DIFFERENCES: While there is overlap among the groups, not every group is the same and thinks the same. Respect each other's differences and different ideologies. Look for common ground not for things to hate. We're all friends here, treat each other as such.
4. ARGUMENTS: Listen to each other’s opinion completely in good faith. Ask questions about other's points instead of immediately dismissing. Approach taboo subjects--such as sex, religion, and politics--with strangers cautiously; back out if getting heated. Agree to disagree and walk away if necessary.
5. RESPECT FOR THE MEETING HOUSE: Use appropriate trash/recycling cans and clean up after yourselves. Leave the Meeting House better than you found it. Respect the neighborhood, don't act foolishly on the streets when entering and leaving or loitering.
6. NO ELECTIONEERING: Due to tax restrictions for many groups being §501(c)(3) tax-exempt, do not discuss, promote, denigrate, or leave/display/hand out materials for any candidate, campaign, party, or proposition on any upcoming election. No electioneering during the event. Other activities prohibited by tax-restrictions are also not allowed.
7. SELF-RECOGNITION: Try to speak from your own experiences and own your intentions and impacts. Recognize your own privileges and different backgrounds.
8. CONFIDENTIALITY: Meetings are private despite being open to the public. Recordings are prohibited. You may share what you learned, but not direct quotes and identities.
9. MEETING MODERATION: The organizers, hosts, co-hosts, moderators, and discussion leaders will use various methods available to ensure compliance with the rules and maintain decorum.
   Attending any meeting or event implies agreement with the above rules.

NYC Atheists Inc. is a not-for-profit, §501(c)(3) educational and advocacy organization based in New York City. Our primary mission is defending the separation of church and state and advocating for issues of interest to the atheist community. We hold regular events focusing on bringing people together, educating, promoting social action, and having fun.
We seek to promote the following goals:

• Maintaining the separation of church and state.
• Promoting science, reason, and fact-based decision-making.
• Ensuring that public policy decisions are informed by facts rather than myths and fears.
• Keeping religious teaching out of our public schools and all science classes.
• Embodying ethical behaviors forged by evolution and our innate intelligence and compassion.
• Sharing our deep sense of awe and wonder of our amazing cosmos as revealed by science.
• Embracing the arts, fiction, fantasy, creativity, humor, and fun.
• Showing respect for all persons but not for all beliefs.

NYC Atheists Inc.
PO Box 566
New York NY 10150-0566
info@nycatheists.org