August 2025

The two brightest stars in the night sky cannot both be seen if your location is too far north on the North American continent. Baton Rougeans know them as a ...

Sunset, 7:52pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Full Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 23° in Capricornus. ...

The International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From April 2005 to October 2005, Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips conducted experiments and did what ...

Sunset, 7:51pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 18° in ...

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 ...

The Perseids are one of the major meteor showers of the year, caused by debris left from the passings of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Come learn about meteors and let’s see if ...

Solar Viewing will end at 1:15pm. Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly in hydrogen-alpha ...

We are all following the progress of the James Webb, Kepler, Psyche and of course Artemis. What delays are coming, and why? Which ones are on schedule? Center Supervisor James ...

Sunset, 7:45pm CDT. 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 ...

In a session unlike any that Cadets have seen, the ultimate questions of the Earth, the Milky Way and the Universe are confronted. On this particular occasion, the session may ...

Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. There will also be physical science demonstrations, a marshmallow roast, a sky tour and a game for kids to ...

Fifty years ago these machines departed Earth with a singular goal: to once and for all describe the basic sea level environment of Mars. The 1970s were a sensation of ...