• Science Academy: “ISS Expedition 11”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Perseid Meteor Shower

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Science Academy: “Ten Mysteries”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Plus Night: “Here in the Milky Way”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Viking Landers”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:38pm CDT. Weather 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 ...

  • Science Academy: “Airplane Design”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    There's a reason the first "A" in NASA stands for "aeronautic". Stories, songs and poems have archived our personal experience. Aircraft have transformed the way Cadets vacation and the way ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:37pm CDT. 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 6° in ...