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

  • STEM Expansion: “Failure Is Not an Option”

    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

    Sunset, 8:00pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:36pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Full Moon will be at a maximum altitude ...

  • The Daylight Detour

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Whether it’s taking advantage of a prorated BRAS membership; getting the status of all current NASA, LSU and HRPO plans; obtaining the latest information on asteroid Apophis, and comets Kopff ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:03pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:40pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. ...

  • Science Academy: “Mercury”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cadets learn about missions to the fastest planet, as well as its evening elongation later in June.

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 8:04pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:41pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. ...

  • 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 lunar, planetary and deep-sky gazing; and factors to consider when buying ...

  • American STEM: 2026-2076

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The great Constitutional Republic experiment has been going strong for 250 years. In addition to incalculable gifts in the areas of human rights and the arts, the United States education ...

  • Science Academy: “Power in the House II”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The second of this three-session series has Cadets focus on how the Earth's wind can be transformed into energy for families and businesses!

  • Quadruple Conjunction

    Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    This will be an amazing lineup. From the horizon Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and the waxing crescent Moon will be visible!