As one of the most rural regions of New York, hundreds of miles outside of metro New York City, the North Country is blessed with some of the darkest skies in the entire eastern half of North America. This gives North Country residents daily access to the darkest skies around, a stargazing and observing experience the rest of the state lost access to decades ago. It should not be surprising then that the North Country is home to the Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory, a recently upgraded science center and operational observatory.
The North Country is also home to 4 universities with diverse space related program offerings. Both SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Plattsburgh host on campus planetariums, Clarkson University hosts an impressive array of student groups, and St. Lawrence University offers a small school Physics program.
Pairing this active academic infrastructure with the natural bounty of clear night skies makes the North Country a truly unique resource in the broader New York space ecosystem.
Including 34 organizations and resources throughout the North Country Region!
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