• Science Academy: “Calendars and Timekeepers”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Almost always based on division of an Earth year and/or a lunar cycle, calendars mark the passages and anticipations of important events of our lives: births, graduations, marriages, deaths---comet apparitions, ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cancelled. NOAA Flood Advisory in effect until 7pm Saturday. NOAA Cold Weather Advisory from 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday. NOAA Winter Storm Watch from midnight Sunday to 6pm Sunday. NOAA ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 5:39pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:02pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    NOAA's Extreme Cold Warning expires at 10am Sunday. Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Geophysics”

    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 ...