• 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) ...

  • Science Academy: “Names and Catalogs”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Can one name a star? Are there enough names in our cultures to label all stars? How do catalogs act as address books for some of the most lovely objects ...

  • The Daylight Detour

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    NOAA has issued a Heat Advisory until 7pm. Whether it's taking advantage of a prorated BRAS membership; getting the status of all current NASA, LSU and HRPO plans; obtaining the ...

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

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The temperature rises as summer’s constellations settle high overhead early in the night. BREC Education Program Specialist Amy Northrop takes the audience on a fascinating tour of Baton Rouge’s upcoming ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Engineering II”

    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 ...

  • American Radio Relay League Field Day

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The ARRL Field Day program is not affected by rain. One section of the electromagnetic spectrum gets all the love, as tens of thousands of "hams" ascend to the radio ...

  • The Edge of Night

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Personnel will attempt viewing at the Burbank Soccer Complex for at least forty-five minutes. It’s not light. It’s not dark. It’s that special time called twilight and HRPO wants to ...

  • Science Academy: “Meteor Showers”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Only in natural or near-natural skies can one see the dimmest streaks of a shower. Cadets will learn how showers originate and how to perpetuate for years the awesome scenic ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:10pm CDT. 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 37° in ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:08pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 8° in ...

  • Science Academy: “Solar Maximum III”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Between July and December the last great span of Solar Cycle 25 will present itself--awesome sunspot clusters, plage strewn across the Sun's surface, intense flares, massive prominences and nailbiting geomagnetic ...