• Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the Last Quarter Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving, and drive ...

  • Light Pollution Committee Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Are you a local skygazer, homeowner, business owner, science teacher or stakeholder interested reclaiming a natural sky above HRPO and its surrounding while simultaneously saving money and energy, and making ...

  • Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    For over four decades BRAS has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors to consider when buying ...

  • The Daylight Detour

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Whether it's taking advantage of a prorated BRAS membership; getting the status of all current NASA, LSU and HRPO plans; obtaining the latest information on asteroid Apophis; learning HRPO history ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Space Weather”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    This program offers advanced topics, activity extensions and all-new games and demonstrations to older youth. Certificates are earned and archived as well as modern experiments take place. There are also ...

  • American Radio Relay League Field Day

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    One section of the electromagnetic spectrum gets all the love as tens of thousands of "hams" ascend to the radio waves with "phone" (voice) and CW (Morse) in this exciting ...

  • Science Academy: “Colonizing the Moon”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Artemis is heading toward success. Our Moon is the natural first selection for human work, recreation and civilization off the Earth. The first commercial cargo transport experiments are underway right ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. The 20OGS will not be used. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at maximum altitude of 27° ...

  • Edge of Night

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    It's not light. It's not dark. It's that special time called "twilight" and HRPO wants to introduce you to it! Are all sections of the sky the same shade of ...

  • Science Academy: “Colonizing Mars”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Within the next fifty years a supreme change in perspective will accompany our view of the Red Planet. Semi-permanent occupation of the Moon is but a stepping stone to Earthlings ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while parking and leaving, ...

  • Light Pollution Committee Meeting

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Are you a local skygazer, homeowner, business owner, science teacher or stakeholder interested reclaiming a natural sky above HRPO and its surrounding while simultaneously saving money and energy, and making ...