Black Hills Astronomical Society
Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
This page revised 09/04/2008

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

On September 27, weather permitting, we plan to hold a special star party SE of Rapid City on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands.  Click here for a map and directions.

Our September meeting will be on the 2nd Monday, September 8 this year.

                                             BHAS Officers
Frank Belinskey, President                         George Gladfelter, Secretary
Don Teets, Vice President                           Steve Parker, Observatory Director
Peter Hendricksen, Treasurer

BHAS 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.

• Hidden Valley Observatory  

• Our By-Laws in case you are interested in what we consider our mission to be, or how we operate.

• Badlands Observatory, Quinn, SD

• BHAS Members' Telescope List

• NASA Space Place - Hey kids ... Come on in and check out our games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.

• SD Space Days Information

• Solar System Ambassador Program
     Click here for info on SD's Ambassador Fernando Nino

• Mars Exploration Rover Mission website

• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan

• 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!

• What's Out Tonight?

• Nebraska Star Party 

• Astronomy Picture of the Day

• 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!

• Robert Gendler's Astroimaging Gallery

• Space.com

• Marsoweb - an interactive Web site developed by NASA helps scientists select suitable landing sites for future missions to Mars.

• Sioux Empire Astronomy Club - Sioux Falls, SD

• Fillbrandt Observatory at SDSU

• Astronomical Society of the Pacific

• International Dark Sky Association

• NASA Office of Space Science

• NO TELESCOPE NEEDED: Find "International Space Station" with Unaided Eye!!
                      Related Sites: International Space Station (ISS) and ISS Image Gallery

• World's Largest Astronomical Observatories Now Accessible over Internet2 Networks
• South Dakota Space Grant Consortium Homepage

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