• Friday Night Lecture Series: “Starliner”

    The CST-100 Boeing Starliner is tasked with restoring American flights back to the International Space Station. The unmanned flight test completed last May has bolstered excitement that this new incredible ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 81° in Cancer. Please keep ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 76° in Leo. Please keep headlights off while ...

  • Science Academy: “Calendars and Timekeepers”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Years, months and days. We can’t turn back time but we can mark it. Cadets will learn how we’ve been doing it all throughout the...time periods. 

  • 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 be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...

  • Light Pollution Committee

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    BRAS’ open house is for all skygazers, taxpayers, homeowners, business owners, teachers and other stakeholders in a natural-contrast night sky.

  • 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 ...

  • Space Exploration Camp (day one)

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Camp activities include circuit board construction, and construction and launch of two chemical rockets. These two-day Camps occur during East Baton Rouge Parish's public Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. For ...

  • Mercurian Elongation

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    The first of the 2023 attempts to see the fastest and most elusive planet of our Solar System will take place around the corner from HRPO due to the required ...

  • Space Exploration Camp (day two)

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Camp activities include circuit board construction, and construction and launch of two chemical rockets. These two-day Camps occur during East Baton Rouge Parish's public Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. For ...

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

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The temperature is mild as April’s constellations settle high overhead early in the night. HRPO Education Curator Amy Northrop takes the audience on a fascinating tour of Baton Rouge's spring ...