Black Hills Astronomical Society
Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
This page revised 05/18/2009
The Black Hills Astronomical Society (BHAS) meets on the third Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. (September through May) at the Journey Museum, 222 New York Street.
Regular meetings are not held during the months of June, July, and August, but we then have frequent Summer Star Parties at Hidden Valley Observatory.Click here for Meeting Dates and Presentation Titles & Star Party Dates -- updated 5/18/09
BHAS Officers
Frank Belinskey, President George Gladfelter, Secretary
Don Teets, Vice President Steve Parker, Observatory Director
Peter Hendricksen, TreasurerBHAS members are encouraged to submit appropriate information and materials for posting on this website to the Secretary.
Equipment for sale / Equipment wanted - This list is offered for
convenience and BHAS makes no representations concerning
the equipment listed, or about the sellers or buyers.
Our By-Laws in case you are interested in what we consider our mission to be, or how we operate.
Badlands Observatory, Quinn, SD
NASA Space Place - Hey kids ... Come on in and check out our games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
Stardust Mission - NASA's amazing mission to capture comet dust and return it to Earth! Stardust Spacecraft encounters the comet on Jan. 2, 2004. Of special interest, is that Badlands Observatory in Quinn, SD provided very useful telescopic observational data to NASA on the comet's position.
Powers of 10 - View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude and enter then enter the microscopic world!
Hubble Space Telescope
website
» Hubble's "New Views of the
Universe"
Earth from Space - Excellent photos of Earth acquired by astronauts aboard NASA Space Shuttle. Over 400,000 images!
Questions/comments about this website? Contact Website Editor George - (6 0 5) 3 4 8 - 0 3 4 9.