• 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 ...

  • Plus Night: “Demonstration Overload”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Due 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 ...

  • 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) ...