Evening Sky Viewing

Highland Road Park Observatory

Weather 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 Observatory

Please 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 Observatory

CANCELLED 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 Observatory

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 ...

Friday Night Lecture Series: SOLWIND

Highland Road Park Observatory

NASA 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 Observatory

CANCELLED. 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 Observatory

From 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 Observatory

Saturn 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 Observatory

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 ...

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 planetary and deep-sky gazing, and factors to consider when buying a ...

Friday Night Lecture Series: “Wonders of the Fall Sky”

Highland Road Park Observatory

HRPO's parking lot should be negotiated carefully after the storm. Some parking spaces are unavailable. The speed limit is 10mph. BREC Education Program Specialist Amy Northrop will take the audience ...

Evening Sky Viewing

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 33° in Sagittarius. Please keep ...

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