• Light Pollution Committee Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The Light Pollution Committee is an education effort overseen by the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society. The public is invited. The LPC teaches people what light pollution is, what the different ...

  • 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, and factors to consider when buying a ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Waiting for a Nova”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    What violent process can cause a star to temporarily outshine its surroundings by factors of up to hundreds of thousands--if not millions--and survive, only to do it all over again ...

  • 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 at a maximum altitude of 43° in Virgo. Please keep headlights off ...

  • Science Academy: “Mercury”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The closest planet to the Sun, the fastest to go around the Sun and the smallest official planet. They are all Mercury! In time for its upcoming evening elongation, Cadets ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the First Quarter Moon at a maximum altitude of 48° in Virgo. Please keep headlights off ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    CANCELLED —  HRPO will close by at least 9:45pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon at a maximum ...

  • Science Academy: “A Natural Satellite to Visit”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Earth is the closest planet to the Sun with a Moon. This body has inspired and informed art, religion and philosophy as well as science, Cadets will discuss the different ...

  • Full Moon Party

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    NO VIEWING —  HRPO will close by at least 10pm. Physical science demonstrations, hands-on activities. NOAA Forecast (Bad): precipitation potential 40%, sky cover 60%, relative humidity 87%, temperature 27C, heat ...

  • Mercurian Elongation

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    CANCELLED —  NOAA Forecast (Bad): precipitation potential 25%, sky cover 66%, relative humidity 96%, temperature 25C, heat index 26C, wind S 3 km/hr. Periodically, Mercury reaches its greatest angular separation ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Our Birth Stars”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    A person's "birth star" is a star whose light has taken as long to reach Earth as he's been alive. Of course, birth stars change over the course of a ...