• Science Academy: “The Spooky Session”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    It’s the Saturday before the Spooky Spectrum! Cadets will preview some of that event’s concepts, experiencing creepy legends and tales from the annals of space exploration while delving into a ...

  • Saturnian Opposition

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Saturn is rising as the Sun is setting. The Earth and Saturn are now the closest they will be to each other this year! Weather permitting, viewing of Saturn will ...

  • Neptunian Opposition

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Neptune is rising as the Sun is setting. The Earth and Neptune are now the closest they will be to each other this year! Weather permitting, viewing of Neptune will ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...

  • STEM Expansion: “Aerospace Engineering II”

    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 giveaways ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 6:54pm 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 24° in ...

  • The Spooky Spectrum

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Come visit on this moonlit night–if you dare–as HRPO delves into the eerie side of astronomy, physics and aeronautics. We’ll have creepy science demonstrations, some of which have never been ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “Triumph at LIGO”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    (GUEST SPEAKER: R. Mishael Sedas of LIGO) It has been ten years since that breathtaking announcement by the LIGO facilities in Louisiana and Washington State. The confirmation of the existence ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 6:38pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 7:59pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be at a maximum ...

  • Science Academy: “Rockets of the Future”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Cadets may believe that rocket technology has already been perfected. Yet engineers reveal more and more test results which may take the ability to lift human beings, satellites and cargo ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Sunset, 6:37pm CDT. 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 ...

  • Solar Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...