November 2025

The study of the big triumvirate (Earth, Sun and Moon) begins. Cadets will learn how precious our home and why it may cease to be humanity's only home! To register, ...

Sunset, 6:16pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 57° in ...

HRPO opens for the closest Supermoon in every calendar year that has one. The thrill comes from a combination of that actual closeness and the illusion that makes a Full ...

It’s not light. It’s not dark. It’s that special time called twilight and HRPO wants to introduce you to it! Are all sections of the sky the same shade of ...

Like all other human beings, Cadets are born knowing little about the Cosmos. They see the sunshine and night, the Moon and the stars and begin to wonder. The first ...

Due to the lack of a 20OGS operator, HRPO is closing at 9pm. Sunset, 5:11pm CST. Twilight Ends, 6:34pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take ...

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 ...

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 wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...

The only continent never permanently settled, Antarctica is brutal to visitors. Ernest Shackleton and his crew experienced an astounding and terrifying adventure as their ship Endurance crossed the Arctic Circle ...

HRPO will close at 9:45pm as NOAA's Dense Fog Advisory begins at 10pm. Sunset, 5:07pm CST. Twilight Ends, 6:31pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take ...

The ice giants are the markers separating the relatively known from the mostly unknown. You need a binocular to see the former and a telescope to see the latter. Cadets ...

Sunset: 5:07pm CST. Twilight Ends: 6:31pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. There will also be physical science demonstrations, a marshmallow roast, a sky ...