• Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) may be visible between 7:15pm and 8:30pm. Any interested parties should bring a binocular if possible. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Buying Skygazing Equipment”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    BRAS member (and asteroid discoverer) Merrill Hess heads this personnel-driven overview of this year's economic landscape for binoculars, telescopes, flashlights, eyepieces and filters.

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) may be visible between 8:30pm and 9:15pm, but only on the viewing grounds. The comet will be too low for the upstairs telescope. Weather permitting, viewing ...

  • 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 ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Spooky STEM”

    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 giveaways ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) may be visible between 7:45pm and 8:15pm through the upstairs telescope. This is the last alert for viewing of Comet C/2023 A3. Weather permitting, viewing through ...