• Science Academy: “Orion’s Neighborhood”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Using the brilliant constellation Orion as a starting area, Cadets will receive invaluable tools for amateur skygazing science at HRPO, on vacation and at home--and will create a personal Orion ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. Drive slowly!

  • Mercurian Elongation

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Periodically Mercury reaches the greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest time for amateurs to view Mercury. Come to the Burbank Soccer Complex! ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Wonders of the Winter Sky”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    BREC Education Curator Amy Northrop will take the audience on a fascinating tour of Baton Rouge’s winter season. She’ll highlight the celestial gems that will sparkle throughout the next three months—gems ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. Drive slowly!

  • Science Academy: “The Gemini Program”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cadets will become immersed in the "bridge" between the Mercury and Apollo programs. Twelve missions over five years perfected the launch of two astronauts together and saw the first American ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. Drive slowly!

  • Light Pollution Committee Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Are you a local skygazer, homeowner, business owner, science teacher or stakeholder interested reclaiming a natural sky above HRPO and its surrounding while simultaneously saving money and energy, and making ...

  • Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors to ...

  • Geminid Meteor Shower

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The Geminid meteors, in addition to being part of one of the most reliable showers of the year, are quite intriguing and were first noticed in the 1860s. For this one ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Apollo 8 55th Anniversary”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For the first time, men would be launched from Earth atop the enormous Saturn V--and men would travel around the Moon. Former HRPO Center Supervisor Tom Northrop recounts the thrilling ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. Drive slowly!