Greetings and welcome to BAS. There are many ways to get involved in BAS activities. On top of our monthly membeship meetings, we have two scheduled star parties each month (weather permitting of course). On occasion there is also a need for BAS volunteers for star parties at schools, churches, and other similar events. To be informed of these events please join the BAS1 yahoo group. Instructions on how to get here will be provided below. This yahoo group is also how most of the members communicate to each other for impromptu star parties, questions. and interesting tid bits found on the internet. 

What's Next?

1. Attend meetings
2. Go to a star party. See the club calander for the schedule
3. Ask questions on BAS1 and our Facebook page
4. Join the BAS1 yahoo group:
   1. IF you have a yahoo account log in, if not make one.
   2. From the homepage of yahoo under the search bar click the "More..." option. The page will redirect to a list of yahoo pages. Find and click "Groups".
   3. In the search bar (it will say search groups in grey), type "Boise astronomical society".
   4. The search should result with BAS1 as an option. Click it. It will take you to the group page. 
   5. Click "Join Group". A window will pp up asking for your preferences. If you would like to recieve emails as the come in make sure the "individual email" is marked.​
5. Join the facebook page
6. As a part of the membership you will be receiving the Reflector Magazine. Members also have the opportunity to receive astronomy magazine. Please email or speak with the treasurer for more information. 
7. Join the NASA JPL dark sky

Links

There are many applications and websites that can help out. Stellarium is a open source program for all computers. It is a digital skychart great for learning the sky. Click here to go to their page. 

There are may smart phoen apps that have the same function as stellarium as well as many other computer programs. 

Clear Sky Chart is a weather forecasting system that predicts cloud cover, temperature, with, and many other things that help with determining sky conditions. There are many locations that are observed, all it takes is a city in the search bar. Click here to go to their page. There is a apple and android app for this website (Android: clear sky droid; Apple: clear sky chart viewer).

NASA JPL Dark Sky

Volunteering

What to volunteer out at the Bruneau Dunes Observatory? Don't know what to do or what it requires? Open or download the Volunteering pdf to learn more. Also contact Richard Beaver the Bruneau volunteer coordinator for more information. 

Observing Program

BAS is sponsoring an observing program, the Deep Sky 101. For more information, or to get started check or the program page here. 

SOHO EIT 304 Lastest Image

Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The SOHO project home page can be found here.