Natural Sky Conference
Highland Road Park ObservatoryQuite possibly the most important three hours a stakeholder will spend at HRPO this year will be this networking conference allowing HRPO parents, BRAS members and LSU physics professors and ...
Quite possibly the most important three hours a stakeholder will spend at HRPO this year will be this networking conference allowing HRPO parents, BRAS members and LSU physics professors and ...
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton. These men's names have passed into history and into legend. To register, go to www.brec.org, access ...
Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. There will also be physical science demonstrations, a marshmallow roast, a sky tour and a game for kids to earn small ...
Campers will build and fly a single-stage chemical rocket, while learning about the upcoming missions to the Moon and Mars, how an asteroid will occult the star Betelgeuse and the ...
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 ...
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 waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 61° in Aries. Please keep headlights off while ...
THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2024 DUE TO FLOODING CONCERNS. THERE WILL BE NO EVENING SKY VIEWING TONIGHT. HRPO IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC TONIGHT. Solar Cycle 25 is ...
Using the brilliant constellation Orion as a starting area, Cadets will receive invaluable tools for amateur skygazing science at HRPO, on vacation and at home--and will create a personal Orion ...
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 leaving. Drive slowly!
Periodically Mercury reaches the greatest angular separation in the sky (elongation) from the Sun. This is the safest time for amateurs to view Mercury. Come to the Burbank Soccer Complex! ...
BREC Education Curator Amy Northrop will take the audience on a fascinating tour of Baton Rouge’s winter season. She’ll highlight the celestial gems that will sparkle throughout the next three months—gems ...