• Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 5:57pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:18pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 5:57pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:18pm 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

    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 calcium-K wavelength and directly hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Astronomy for Personalized Advancement”

    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 ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 6:02pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:23pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum ...

  • Total Lunar Eclipse

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Overnight excitement as we witness one of nature's most spectacular events! While crossing from Leo into Sextans and then back into Leo, our Moon will enter Earth's shadows. There are ...

  • 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: “The Gemini Program”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    In May 1961, the United States vowed to send human beings to the Moon before the onset of the 1970s. Project Gemini was the proving ground for the technology that ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cancelled. Sunset, 6:07pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:28pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the ...

  • 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 lunar, planetary and deep-sky gazing; and factors to consider when buying ...

  • American STEM: 1826-1876

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    20OGS viewing will take place from 7pm to 8:30pm. The great Constitutional Republic experiment has been going strong for 250 years. In addition to incalculable gifts in the areas of ...