• Perseid Meteor Shower

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The Perseids are one of the major meteor showers of the year, caused by debris left from the passings of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Come learn about meteors and let’s see if ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Solar Viewing will end at 1:15pm. Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly in hydrogen-alpha ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:45pm CDT. 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 ...

  • Science Academy: “Ten Mysteries”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    In a session unlike any that Cadets have seen, the ultimate questions of the Earth, the Milky Way and the Universe are confronted. On this particular occasion, the session may ...

  • Plus Night: “Here in the Milky Way”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. There will also be physical science demonstrations, a marshmallow roast, a sky tour and a game for kids to ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Viking Landers”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Fifty years ago these machines departed Earth with a singular goal: to once and for all describe the basic sea level environment of Mars. The 1970s were a sensation of ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:38pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the New Moon will be below the horizon. Please keep headlights off while ...

  • Science Academy: “Airplane Design”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    There's a reason the first "A" in NASA stands for "aeronautic". Stories, songs and poems have archived our personal experience. Aircraft have transformed the way Cadets vacation and the way ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 7:37pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 6° in ...

  • Thomas Detman Collection

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    HRPO will close by at least 8:15pm. HRPO is pleased to present a wealth of materials from the late Thomas R. Detman With intriguing insights into the professional world of ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cancelled. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 19° in Libra. Please ...