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 ...
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 44° in Virgo. Please keep headlights off while ...
The Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has won this year's hosting of the Astronomical League's prestigious astronomy conference ALCON. Since the 1930s ALCON has been the premiere annual event where professionals, ...
NOTE: The lecture originally scheduled to take place before this viewing session ("The Visible Passes") has been postponed until 22 September. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During ...
Saturn is the namesake of Saturday, and this Saturday Cadets will learn about this mostly hydrogen-and-helium ball. Its eighty-plus moons; the legacies of Voyager and Cassini; and the planet's potential ...
NOTE: As the heat index is in NOAA's "Danger" category until 9pm, this event is cancelled. HRPO personnel will be offering public viewing on Wednesday the 9th at the Burbank ...
Periodically Mercury reaches its greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest way to view Mercury by amateurs. Come join us at the Burbank ...
NOTE: HRPO's main floor AC unit has a broken component. The lecture originally scheduled to take place before this viewing session ("STEREO Shows the Sun") has been postponed until 15 ...
Close-up imagery of the "ice giants" were acquired via the Voyager spacecraft. Cadets will understand how the visits to the most-titled planet and the windiest planet in the Solar System ...
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 ...
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 ...
For over four decades 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 ...
