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Our next membership meeting is at Anser Charter School in Garden City at 7 pm Thursday March 19th. The topic for tonight’s meeting is volunteering at the Bruneau Dunes State Park Observatory.  Lynn Oliver – BAS liaison and Greg Harman – Astro Ranger for Bruneau Dunes State Park Observatory will make short presentations on whyContinue reading “March 19, 2026 Member Meeting – Volunteering at Bruneau Dunes Observatory”

At our last general membership meeting we elected a new board! Jeff Creed – President, Eric Tretter – Vice President, Rhosan Ames – Treasurer, and Kim King – Secretary. Thank you to David and Pam Olsen (past President and Secretary) for your years of service to the Boise Astronomical Society.

SpacePoint will present a presentation by Dr. Shane Larson – NASA’s LISA Consortium Board – on LISA – the largest space based gravity and black hole detector. Location is JUMP on February 7th with doors opening at 6 pm and the talk beginning at 7 pm. Tickets are available at Spacepoint.org/events.

BSU First Friday will occur at the Morrison Center on Friday February 6 at 7:30 pm. The event is currently sold out but you can email theatrefilmcw@boisestate.edu to be informed if seats open up. The Theatre Arts Program will present readings of selections from Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece, “The Life of Galileo.” The play follows theContinue reading “Feb 6 2026 – The Life of Galileo”

The Boise Astronomical Society is hosting a telescope lab if you or someone you know got a telescope for Christmas. Do you have questions about how to use it? What do the included eyepieces do? What kind of mount is my telescope attached to, and why do I care?  The Boise Astronomical Society is hereContinue reading “January 15th 2026”

Boise State Physics First Friday Astronomy kicks off tonight at 7:30 pm with a presentation on the Bruneau Dunes State Park Observatory. Greg Harman is presenting.

BAS General Meeting. Members only event. Location is the Whittenberger Planetarium, College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID, 7pm. Address: Boone Science Hall, 2112 Cleveland Blvd, Caldwell, ID 83605 https://www.collegeofidaho.edu/about/campus-facilities/planetarium/about-planetarium

2025 SCHEDULE BRUNEAU DUNES STATE PARK –Friday, September 19th, 2025 –Saturday, September 20th, 2025 –Sunday September 21st, 2025