• Friday Night Lecture Series: “Our Birth Stars”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    A person's birth star is a star whose light took as long to reach Earth as he's been alive. Of course, birth stars change over the course of a human ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:28pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 8:52pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. ...

  • Science Academy: “Colonizing the Moon”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Artemis II is here! And after...? Cadets will estimate the timeframe for working and living on the Moon. [To register, go to www.brec.org, access the registration function and use Activity ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:29pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 8:53pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. ...

  • Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

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