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The board meeting will be on Wednesday July 3rd at Anser Charter School in Garden City at 7:00pm. The Idaho Star Party meeting will be at the same location starting at 6:30pm.
The general meeting will the 12th at Anser Charter School at 7:00pm. This is the annual Pizza and Ice Cream Social. It is a members only event but you are welcome to come a join night of. Ponderosa Star Party is coming up soon. August 2-4th. The Idaho Star Party is coming soon. For more information please see us at our ISP Site Click the image below for more a pdf print out on the Bogus Basin Star Party in July
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Jeremiah Sorrells
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Star PartiesThe first star party will be held on the 6th at the Dedication Point location.
The second will be on the 27th at Reynolds Creek. On the 20th we will be holding the Bogus Basin Star Party. Watch for go/ no go messages on facebook and BAS1 Click here for maps |
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President's Letter
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The monthly board meeting will be on Wednesday, the 3rdth of July at Anser Charter School. We will be holding our Idaho Star Party™ pre-planning session beginning at 6:30pm and then the regular board meeting at 7:00pm.
On Friday, the 12th, of July, the monthly meeting will be held at 7:00pm at Anser Charter School located at 202 E. 42nd St. in Garden City. This will be our annual pizza and ice-cream social, and is a members-only meeting. We will also be voting on the BAS Volunteer-of-the-year award at this meeting. We will also vote on the T-Shirt design for ISP 2019. Note for this event you may renew or join the club at the door. Also this month we have the Bogus Basin star party on July 20th; the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon. The event kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with a members-only potluck dinner, then the public will begin to arrive around 7 p.m. for a few hours of solar viewing (using the new BAS solar telescope!). As it gets dark, we will begin viewing Jupiter and Saturn as Saturn rising in the east. Once darkness falls, Dr. Irwin Horowitz, will perform a tour of the summer constellations and we can start viewing the wonderful deep sky objects visible at this time of year. We anticipate a very large crowd and ask that as many of our members as are available come join us with their telescopes so that we can provide regular access to our guests. The event is cosponsored by the Bogus Basin Foundation, Idaho Camera and Idaho Mountain Touring. The only cost for the event is we ask for a donation of canned goods for the Idaho Food Bank. We have a star party scheduled for July 6th at Dedication Point. As always a GO / NO-GO message will posted on BAS1 Yahoo group and on facebook letting you know if you would like to attend. We will hold the Ponderosa Park star party from August 2nd and 3rd in McCall and the Idaho Star Party™ over the weekend of September 27th and 28th at Bruneau Dunes State Park. The theme for ISP this year is “Shadows of Earths” and we will be welcoming Dr. Jessie Christiansen with NASA to speak about Exoplanets. If you have not reserved a campsite for ISP, you will need to contact the Idaho Parks department and reserve an open site in Loop B of the Eagle Cove campground. Also we are taking early registration forms at this time. After August 1st, the rates for registration as well as the price for the World Famous Star-B-Que will go up. In addition, you will not be able to order hats or t-shirts after that date. Lastly, please consider helping out this summer at the observatory at Bruneau Dunes. They are open every Friday and Saturday evening through the summer and are always seeking volunteers to operate telescopes. If you are interested, in volunteering please call the park directly at (208) 366-7919. When you call please make sure they need you for the evening and the weather looks good. You will also need to log your hours with the observatory in the BAS logbook. Clear skies until next month David Olsen, President BAS |
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