• Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Plutonian System”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Thirty-five years ago James Christy discovered Charon. This was the beginning of our knowledge of the fascinating trans-Neptunian system. With the images and data from New Horizons we are in ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will at maximum altitude of 29° in Libra. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...

  • Science Academy: “Venus”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    We've mapped the elusive lands of Venus with radar and released investigative probes into the planet's hostile atmosphere. Cadets will discover the qualities that distinguish the Goddess of Love from ...

  • Venusian Elongation

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Periodically Venus reaches its greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest way to view Venus by amateurs. Come join us at the Burbank ...

  • Display Premiere: “The Histories and Mysteries of Glass”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Glass was first manufactured thousands of years ago. It is actually a supercooled liquid which can be transformed not only into works of beauty and contemplation but also into fiberglass ...

  • Science Academy: “Exploring Weather II”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    In the second of three never-to-repeat sessions, Cadets will investigate: frost, mist, fog, clouds, rain and snow.

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Last Quarter Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving, and drive ...

  • 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 BRAS has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors to consider when buying ...

  • 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; learning HRPO history ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Space Weather”

    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 ...

  • American Radio Relay League Field Day

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    One section of the electromagnetic spectrum gets all the love as tens of thousands of "hams" ascend to the radio waves with "phone" (voice) and CW (Morse) in this exciting ...