• Light Pollution Committee Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The Light Pollution Committee is an education effort overseen by the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society. The public is invited. The LPC teaches people what light pollution is, what the different ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in three different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light and directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will take place. During ...

  • Mars-Jupiter Conjunction

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The Red Planet and the King of the Gas Giants will be placed in the sky less than a half-degree apart! Tight planet-planet conjunctions are not very common. We encourage ...

  • 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 be at a maximum altitude of 31° in Sagittarius. Please keep ...

  • Plus Night: “The Ringed Beauty”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The heat index will be in the "Extreme Caution" category during the first hour of the program. Pad viewing will not begin until 7:30pm; dome viewing may not begin until ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The lecture "SOLWIND" is postponed until September. HRPO opens at 8:30pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will ...

  • Science Academy: “Hurricanes”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    NOAA predicted a higher-than-average season this year for cyclonic storms. Cadets will receive their own take-home tracking maps, investigate the geophysical processes that create these monsters and perform a couple ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. Twilight ends at 9:00pm. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Concept of Zero”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Please be aware that NOAA has issued a Flood Watch until 7pm tomorrow evening. Not only the numeral but the idea of representing "nothing" mathematically revolutionized technology and philosophy. Want ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    CANCELLED 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 ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in three different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light and directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will take place. During ...