12400 Burbank Drive
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Personnel will attempt viewing at the Burbank Soccer Complex for at least forty-five minutes. It’s not light. It’s not dark. It’s that special time called twilight and HRPO wants to ...
Only in natural or near-natural skies can one see the dimmest streaks of a shower. Cadets will learn how showers originate and how to perpetuate for years the awesome scenic ...
Sunset, 8:10pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 37° in ...
Only one hour away if you could drive straight up--the intrigue of space began thousands of years ago, reached a golden age in the century span prior to this year ...
Sunset, 8:08pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 8° in ...
Between July and December the last great span of Solar Cycle 25 will present itself--awesome sunspot clusters, plage strewn across the Sun's surface, intense flares, massive prominences and nailbiting geomagnetic ...
Due to the heat index there will be no fire. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. There will also be physical science demonstrations, a marshmallow ...
For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, and factors to consider when buying a ...
Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...
For years HRPO has been promoting the concept of birth stars! This presentation also will include the Star in Focus List that premieres this month!
The 20OGS will not be in operation tonight. Sunset, 8:06pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will ...
Planets get the majority of the attention, but the smaller bodies can create a lifelong memory with a close pass (asteroid) or a bright showing (comet). Cadets will learn what ...
CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN/BAD WEATHER Sunset, 8:05pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below ...
Discovered by an American and considered an official planet from 1930 to 2006, Pluto holds a special place in space lore even for those who have never seen it in ...
The 20OGS will not be in operation. HRPO will close at least by 9:45pm. Sunset, 8:02pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this ...
Cancelled. HRPO will close at 12:15pm or if it rains. Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical ...
This program offers advanced topics, activity extensions and all-new games and demonstrations to older youth. Certificates are earned and archived as well as modern experiments take place. There are also giveaways ...
Sunset, 8:02pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 25° in ...