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Leah Rogers with Boise State University will present – Conservation of Idaho’s Dark Skies. Stay out of the smoke Friday evening and hear about her night sky conservation efforts in Idaho. This presentation will begin at 7:30 pm on the Boise State University campus in the big lecture hall on the first floor of theContinue reading “August 7th – First Friday Astronomy”

A reminder for BAS members that our annual Pizza Party and Ice Cream Social will be held this coming Thursday, July 16th at Idaho Pizza on Fairview and Cole. The pizza and ice cream will be paid by BAS.  Drinks will not.   Festivities begin at 7 PM.  This is a members only party and I hope you allContinue reading “MEMBERS ONLY – JULY 16TH – ANNUAL PIZZA/ICE CREAM SOCIAL”

Dr. Kirk Long with University of Colorado Boulder will present – How to Weigh a Supermassive Black Hole: Insights From QuasarsAcross Cosmic Time. This presentation will begin at 7:30 pm on the Boise State University campus in the Multi-Prupose Classroom Building in Room 101(https://maps.boisestate.edu/?id=715#!m/89075) . This building is just across the plaze from the EducationContinue reading “July 3rd – First Friday Event”

Dr. Racine Cleveland will present “Of Dunes and Ice: A Surface-Atmosphere Investigation on Planetary Bodies”. This presentation will begin at 7:30 pm on the Boise State University campus in the Liberal Arts Building (LART) – Room 106. Dr. Cleveland is a planetary science postdoctoral research fellow at BSU and is the IDastro program coordinator. ThisContinue reading “June 5th – First Friday Event”

The next First Friday Astronomy event is on Friday May 1st at Boise State University. Dr. Ellie Hara from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will talk about her work on prebiotic chemistry. The event will be in the Education Building, room 112. The talks will also be live-streamed at boi.st/astrobroncoslive.

This week’s club meeting is our first equipment swap of the year, Idaho Star Party registration will officially open, and we will have several breakout sessions covering: (1) Smartphone Astrophotography – Daniel Ross; (2) Eyepieces – Eric Tretter; and (3) “You Can’t Find Anything” – Jeff Creed. There will be also be a Q&A sessionContinue reading “Members Meeting – April 16, 2026 – 7 PM”

Boise State Physics First Friday Astronomy will host Dr. Madeleine McKenzie, an astrophysicist interested in globular clusters and all things Milky Way – https://madeleine-mckenzie.github.io/. The presentation will be held on the BSU campus at the Education Building room 112, and the event will be live-streamed at https://boi.st/astrobroncoslive. Come on out and support Boise State Physics FirstContinue reading “April 3rd 2026 – Globular Clusters in the Milky Way”

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.