Periodically Mercury reaches its greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest way to view Mercury by amateurs. Come join us at the Burbank ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and ...
This two-day, thrice-a-year offering gives kids a front-row seat for hands-on exploration of current STEM developments; the latest in astronomical discoveries; and construction and launch of a chemical rocket.
This new annual presentation (an amalgam of earlier discontinued talks) will provide a baseline for where Baton Rouge skygazers stand regarding acquisition of the Sun and Moon; planets; asteroids and ...
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 ...
Yes--they are born, and they die...just like us. Most follow "standard" progressions of aging; others have strange lives that rival anything found in science fiction. Cadets will immerse themselves in ...
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 ...
The clockwork of the heavens arrange for Baton Rougeans yet another fascinating obscuration of the solar disk! The Sun probably will be about eighty-five percent covered by Earth's Moon. HRPO ...
It has been sixty-five years since NASA announced that Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, "Gus" Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and "Deke" Slayton would go where no American had ...
Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 43° in Taurus. Please keep ...
