• Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For over eighty-five years the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club has introduced the local area to the Amateur Radio Service and all its benefits. During this meeting officers and members ...

  • Natural Sky Task Force Public Input Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The purposes of these monthly gatherings are to network and share results of separate efforts to reduce light pollution, and to share advice on improving separate efforts to reduce light ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:00pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:35pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 calcium-K wavelength and directly hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Failure Is Not an Option”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Sunset, 8:00pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:36pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Full Moon will be at a maximum altitude ...

  • The Daylight Detour

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Whether it’s taking advantage of a prorated BRAS membership; getting the status of all current NASA, LSU and HRPO plans; obtaining the latest information on asteroid Apophis, and comets Kopff ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:03pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:40pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. ...

  • Science Academy: “Mercury”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cadets learn about missions to the fastest planet, as well as its evening elongation later in June.

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:04pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:41pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. ...