October 2024

It's Halloween season. This lecture slot will be used to highlight a smorgasbord of unsettling stories, images and theories--for our adult audience.

CANCELLED 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 ...

It's the Saturday before the Spooky Spectrum! Cadets will preview some of that event's concepts, experiencing creepy legends and tales from the annals of space exploration while delving into a ...

CANCELLED Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 7° in Libra. Please ...

Come visit on this moonlit night--if you dare--as HRPO delves into the eerie side of astronomy, physics and aeronautics. We'll have creepy science demonstrations, some of which have never been ...

Weather permitting, an attempt to view of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will take place at the Burbank Soccer Complex. The device operators will be in the back of the Complex ...

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 ...

For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, and factors to consider when buying a ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) may be visible early this evening. HRPO is opening its grounds at 6:30pm. Any interested parties should bring a binocular if possible. HRPO opens for the ...

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 ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) may be visible between 7:15pm and 8:15pm. Any interested parties should bring a binocular if possible. 20OGS viewing will not begin before 8pm. For sixty-six years ...

The International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From October 2003 to April 2004 Michael Foale and Alexander Kaleri conducted experiments and did what ...