• The Edge of Night

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Science Academy: “Planet, Star, Galaxy, Universe I”

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    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 ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

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    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 ...

  • Solar Viewing

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    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) ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Shackleton Expedition”

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    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 ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 ...

  • Science Academy: “Uranus and Neptune”

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    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 ...

  • Plus Night: “Right Ascension 1”

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    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 ...

  • Natural Sky Conference

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    NOAA Forecast (Good): precipitation potential 8%, sky cover 29%, relative humidity 90%, temperature 24C, wind SW 6 km Quite possibly the most important hours a stakeholder will spend at HRPO ...

  • Science Academy: “ISS Expedition 12”

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    The International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From September 2005 to April 2006, Bill McArthur and Valery Tokarev conducted experiments and did what ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 5:04pm CST. Twilight Ends, 6:29pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be below the horizon. ...