• Friday Night Lecture Series: “Wonders of the Winter Sky”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    BREC Education Curator Amy Northrop will take the audience on a fascinating tour of Baton Rouge’s winter season. She’ll highlight the celestial gems that will sparkle throughout the next three months—gems ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    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. Drive slowly!

  • Science Academy: “The Gemini Program”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cadets will become immersed in the "bridge" between the Mercury and Apollo programs. Twelve missions over five years perfected the launch of two astronauts together and saw the first American ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    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. Drive slowly!

  • 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 over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors to ...

  • Geminid Meteor Shower

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The Geminid meteors, in addition to being part of one of the most reliable showers of the year, are quite intriguing and were first noticed in the 1860s. For this one ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Apollo 8 55th Anniversary”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For the first time, men would be launched from Earth atop the enormous Saturn V--and men would travel around the Moon. Former HRPO Center Supervisor Tom Northrop recounts the thrilling ...

  • 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 be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. Drive slowly!

  • Science Academy: “The Apollo Program”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    From the brave astronauts who perished during their training (Apollo 1) to the first cruise around the Moon and a reading from the Book of Genesis during Christmas Eve (Apollo ...

  • Amateur Skygazing Course: Learn Your Sky

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    THIS CLASS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO LACK OF ENROLLMENT. IT WILL BE MOVED TO EARLY FEBRUARY 2024. This class is an introduction to the unaided-eye Baton Rouge sky. Included ...

  • 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 be at a maximum altitude of 17° in Capricornus. Please keep headlights off while ...