The Daylight Detour
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOAA 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 ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “Wonders of the Summer Sky”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe 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 ...
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STEM Expansion: “Engineering II”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThis 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 ...
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American Radio Relay League Field Day
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe 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 ...
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The Edge of Night
Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, LouisianaPersonnel 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 ...
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Science Academy: “Meteor Showers”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryOnly 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 ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatorySunset, 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 ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Place Called Outer Space”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryOnly one hour away if you could drive straight up--the intrigue of space began thousands of years ago, reached a golden age in the century span prior to this year ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatorySunset, 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 ...
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Science Academy: “Solar Maximum III”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryBetween 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 ...
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Plus Night: “Demonstration Overload”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryDue to the heat index there will be no fire. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. There will also be physical science demonstrations, a marshmallow ...
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Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting
Highland Road Park ObservatoryFor 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 ...