Introduction to Skygazing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryOur special module for teachers, parents and students has been renamed and moved from March--but the goal remains the same: get youth outside and looking at celestial marvels.
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February 2024
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather 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 ...
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Science Academy: “What is a Volcano?”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThis is the first of three sessions belong to Amy Northrop's volcano module! The other two will take place on 17 February and 2 March. Participation in this session is ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOAA FORECASTS A FIFTY-NINE PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN DURING THIS EVENT. THERE WILL BE NO VIEWING AND HRPO WILL BE CLOSED BY 8:30. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Constellation Orion”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe most famous pattern of stars in the sky, Orion can be seen by most civilizations, has numerous myths attached to him and is inherently a signpost to other celestial ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the New Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. ...
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Science Academy: “120 Years of Flight”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe principles of heavier-than-air travel, the history (from the Wright Brothers to the X-planes) and even a little winter twist await any Cadets who enroll in this one-time standalone session! ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 30° in Leo. Please keep ...
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Light Pollution Committee Meeting
Highland Road Park ObservatoryAre 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 ...
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Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting
Highland Road Park ObservatoryFor 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 ...
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Solar Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather 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 ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “STEREO Shows the Sun”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe mission was revolutionary: place two spacecraft at different vantage points to record our parent star simultaneously. BREC Center Supervisor James DeOliveira shows the fascinating science that prepared us for ...