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  • Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving, and drive slowly!

  • Skygazing: A Pursuer’s Guide

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This special early lecture aimed toward students and families introduces the science hobby and outlines how print and online resources, and HRPO and BRAS, can support a lifetime of intellectual ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will at maximum altitude of 10° in Aries. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...

  • STEM Expansion

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This program offers advanced topics, topic extensions and all-new games and activities to an older crowd. Certificates will be earned, and a section of archived experiments (some never performed on ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will at maximum altitude of 35° in Taurus. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...

  • International Astronomy Day

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Exhibitors, games, food and science! Quite possibly the largest IAD celebration in the tri-state area is back!

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Lure of the Full Moon”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Our constant companion and sole natural satellite is a night light, a source of outrageous stories (some true)—and for our generation, an ultimate goal for living and working. How did ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Full Moon will at maximum altitude of 20° in Libra. Please keep headlights off while parking ...

  • Science Academy: “Exploring Weather I”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    In the first of three never-to-repeat sessions, Cadets will investigate the volume of air, how temperature is related to direct sunlight, and how the wind affects a planet’s weather patterns.

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will at maximum altitude of 8° in Scorpius. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...

  • Light Pollution Committee Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Are you a local skygazer, homeowner, business owner, science teacher or stakeholder interested reclaiming a natural sky above HRPO and its surrounding while simultaneously saving money and energy, and making ...

  • Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For forty years BRAS has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors to consider when buying a ...