2025 Preview Party
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe 20OGS will not be available due to ongoing LSU maintenance. Viewing will take place on the front pad. NOAA has issued a Dense Fog Advisory from 6pm to 10am. ...
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Solar Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryHRPO will close at 12:30pm. NOAA has issued a Tornado Watch until 3pm. Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in three different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly ...
STEM Expansion: “Mars Mania”
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 ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryCANCELLED. NOAA has issued a Tornado Watch until 9pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below ...
Friday Night Lecture Series: “2024–The Space Year in Review”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryTradition continues, with HRPO's cornerstone program returning for another calendar year with a look back at the discoveries, advances and celestial events of 2024.
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 9° in Aquarius. Please keep ...
Science Academy: “Venus”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryIn anticipation of its upcoming evening elongation, Cadets will learn about the newly-discovered truths and still-extant mysteries of the brightest and hottest planet in the Solar System.
Learn Your Binocular
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThis exciting one-day course is tailor-made to instruct the enrollee in the use of a personal binocular.
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 33° in Aquarius. Please keep ...
Venusian Elongation
Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, LouisianaPeriodically Venus reaches its greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest way to view Venus by amateurs. Come join us at the Burbank ...
Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Red Planet”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryA variety of personnel will recount their personal experience with a place that has inspired science and fantasy for centuries!
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 87° in Taurus. Please keep ...