Events

CANCELLED 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 ...

From blimps and dirigibles to smaller versions at birthday parties--lighter-than-air craft has brought joy and interest in flight, as well as provided practical means of transportation and of offense/defense in ...

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 ...

Due to weather conditions, the exercises for this event will be incorporated into the Natural Sky Conference on 22 November. HRPO will close tonight at 6:15pm. it's not light. It's ...

The ice giants can be spotted from Earth with little difficulty--Uranus with a binocular, Neptune with a telescope. Their unique color and lack of "twinkle" distinguish them from the stars. ...

CANCELLED 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 43° in Aquarius. Please ...

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 ...

The Light Pollution Committee is an education effort overseen by the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society. The public is invited. The LPC teaches people what light pollution is, what the different ...

For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, and factors to consider when buying a ...

The Apollo anniversary overall has been quite fun...and also introspective. Tom Northrop will be opening one of the older history books at HRPO to discuss the flight of Charles Conrad, ...

Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Full Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 62° in Taurus. Please keep headlights ...

Pure water is odorless and tasteless, while water in general is ubiquitous throughout planet Earth! As the Europa Clipper has begun its journey to a faraway icy moon to search ...