Events

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 leaving. Drive slowly!

Are you a local skygazer, homeowner, business owner, science teacher or stakeholder interested reclaiming a natural sky above HRPO and its surrounding while simultaneously saving money and energy, and making ...

For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors to ...

The Geminid meteors, in addition to being part of one of the most reliable showers of the year, are quite intriguing and were first noticed in the 1860s. For this one ...

For the first time, men would be launched from Earth atop the enormous Saturn V--and men would travel around the Moon. Former HRPO Center Supervisor Tom Northrop recounts the thrilling ...

Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving. Drive slowly!

From the brave astronauts who perished during their training (Apollo 1) to the first cruise around the Moon and a reading from the Book of Genesis during Christmas Eve (Apollo ...

THIS CLASS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO LACK OF ENROLLMENT. IT WILL BE MOVED TO EARLY FEBRUARY 2024. This class is an introduction to the unaided-eye Baton Rouge sky. Included ...

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 17° in Capricornus. Please keep headlights off while ...

From your homestead--a standalone house, apartment, trailer, condo, duplex or what-have-you--a wealth of objects and events awaits you. Some require a binocular or a telescope, some can be seen with ...

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 77° in Aries. Please keep headlights off while ...

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 ...