Science Academy: “Exploring Weather III”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryIn the last of three never-to-repeat sessions, Cadets will investigate: warm fronts, cold fronts, air pressure and jet streams.
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Solar Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather 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. Protective clothing and sunscreen are ...
STEM Expansion: “Meteorology in Space”
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 ...
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 44° in Virgo. Please keep headlights off while ...
ALCON 2023 Star-B-Que
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has won this year's hosting of the Astronomical League's prestigious astronomy conference ALCON. Since the 1930s ALCON has been the premiere annual event where professionals, ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOTE: The lecture originally scheduled to take place before this viewing session ("The Visible Passes") has been postponed until 22 September. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During ...
Science Academy: “Saturn”
Highland Road Park ObservatorySaturn is the namesake of Saturday, and this Saturday Cadets will learn about this mostly hydrogen-and-helium ball. Its eighty-plus moons; the legacies of Voyager and Cassini; and the planet's potential ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOTE: As the heat index is in NOAA's "Danger" category until 9pm, this event is cancelled. HRPO personnel will be offering public viewing on Wednesday the 9th at the Burbank ...
Mercurian Elongation
Burbank Soccer Complex 12400 Burbank Drive, Baton Rouge, LouisianaPeriodically 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 ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOTE: HRPO's main floor AC unit has a broken component. The lecture originally scheduled to take place before this viewing session ("STEREO Shows the Sun") has been postponed until 15 ...
Science Academy: “Uranus and Neptune”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryClose-up imagery of the "ice giants" were acquired via the Voyager spacecraft. Cadets will understand how the visits to the most-titled planet and the windiest planet in the Solar System ...
Perseid Meteor Shower
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe Perseids are one of the major meteor showers of the year, caused by debris left from the passings of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Come learn about meteors and let's see if ...