• American STEM: 1876-1926

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    20OGS viewing will take place from 7:30pm to 9pm. The great Constitutional Republic experiment has been going strong for 250 years. In addition to incalculable gifts in the areas of ...

  • Science Academy: “The Parker Solar Probe”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This spacecraft moves so fast it can go from Baton Rouge to Gulfport in one second! Over a seven-year period it is currently investigating the Sun in manners previously considered ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:25pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 8:47pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. ...

  • Spring Space Exploration Camp (day one)

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This two-day, thrice-a-year offering gives kids a front-row seat for hands-on exploration of current STEM developments; the latest in astronomical discoveries; and construction and launch of a chemical rocket. 

  • Spring Space Exploration Camp (day two)

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This two-day, thrice-a-year offering gives kids a front-row seat for hands-on exploration of current STEM developments; the latest in astronomical discoveries; and construction and launch of a chemical rocket. 

  • 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 ...