Plus Night: “The Ringed Beauty”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe heat index will be in the "Extreme Caution" category during the first hour of the program. Pad viewing will not begin until 7:30pm; dome viewing may not begin until ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe lecture "SOLWIND" is postponed until September. HRPO opens at 8:30pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will ...
Science Academy: “Hurricanes”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOAA predicted a higher-than-average season this year for cyclonic storms. Cadets will receive their own take-home tracking maps, investigate the geophysical processes that create these monsters and perform a couple ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryWeather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. Twilight ends at 9:00pm. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights ...
Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Concept of Zero”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryPlease be aware that NOAA has issued a Flood Watch until 7pm tomorrow evening. Not only the numeral but the idea of representing "nothing" mathematically revolutionized technology and philosophy. Want ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryCANCELLED Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking ...
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. During ...
Friday Night Lecture Series: SOLWIND
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNASA has issued a Flood Watch, in effect until tomorrow at 7:00am. The oft-forgotten instrument aboard the now-defunct P78-1 satellite discovered a comet in 1979--a discovery which presaged the numerous ...
Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryCANCELLED. HRPO will close by at least 8:45pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a ...
Science Academy: “Computers Through History”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryFrom the abacus to the difference engine, mechanical concepts that verged on reaching computer status came on the scene centuries ago. In this first in a series of three sessions, ...
Saturnian Opposition
Highland Road Park ObservatorySaturn is exactly 180 degrees from the Sun, rising as the Sun is setting. On this night, we are now the closest we'll be to Saturn this year! Weather permitting, ...
Light Pollution Committee Meeting
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe 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 ...