• Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The 20OGS will be closed. 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 ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in three different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light and directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will take place. During ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Quantum Physics”

    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

    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 ...

  • International Astronomy Day

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Due to NOAA's current forecast (as of 12pm) it is strongly recommended that the public not arrive until after 4pm on Saturday. The music artist has been cancelled. Solar viewing ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

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

  • Science Academy: “ISS Expedition 10”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From October 2004 to April 2005, Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov conducted experiments and did what ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The 20OGS dome is undergoing repairs. Viewing will take place on the front pad. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 hydrogen-alpha wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Mt. St. Helens”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    In March 1980, this volcano erupted for the first time in over 100 years, killing over fifty people and shocking the country. Education Program Specialist Amy Northrop recounts the amazing ...