• Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 and ...

  • Science Academy: “Life Cycle of a Star”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Yes--they are born, and they die...just like us. Most follow "standard" progressions of aging; others have strange lives that rival anything found in science fiction. Cadets will immerse themselves in ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 and ...

  • Partial Solar Eclipse

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    The clockwork of the heavens arrange for Baton Rougeans yet another fascinating obscuration of the solar disk! The Sun probably will be about eighty-five percent covered by Earth's Moon. HRPO ...

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Mercury Astronauts”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    It has been sixty-five years since NASA announced that Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, "Gus" Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and "Deke" Slayton would go where no American had ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    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 43° in Taurus. Please keep ...

  • Science Academy: “The Periodic Table”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Oxygen and carbon, silicon and uranium, neon and helium, silver and gold. Cadets will travel the rows and columns that describe the building blocks of everything! To register, go to ...

  • Plus Night: “The Mystery Box”

    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 ...

  • 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 the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, the perils of light pollution and factors ...

  • Evening Sky Viewing

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    Tonight's lecture, "Available Energies", has been postponed until August. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at ...

  • Science Academy: “Solar Maximum I”

    Highland Road Park Observatory

    May and June of 2024 will see probably the great levels of sunspots, plage, flares and prominences for the next eight to fourteen years! Cadets will learn about Solar Cycle ...