Evening Sky Viewing
Cancelled. NOAA Flood Advisory in effect until 7pm Saturday. NOAA Cold Weather Advisory from 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday. NOAA Winter Storm Watch from midnight Sunday to 6pm Sunday. NOAA ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “Apollo 14 Fifty-Fifth Anniversary”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryIt was the launch that had something to prove. Nearly a year after the near-disaster of Apollo Thirteen our country's first spaceman--Alan Shepard--returned to space, joined by Stuart Roosa and ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatorySunset, 5:39pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:02pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum ...
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Solar Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatoryNOAA's Extreme Cold Warning expires at 10am Sunday. Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly ...
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STEM Expansion: “Geophysics”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThis 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 ...
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Artemis II Party
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe Artemis II launch has been delayed until at least March. HRPO will still be open for viewing. The 20OGS will be in operation from 8:30pm to 10pm. This test ...
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Science Academy: “ISS Expedition 13”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryThe International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From March 2006 to September 2006, Pavel Vinogradov, Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter conducted experiments and ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatorySunset, 5:46pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:08pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning gibbous Moon will be below the horizon. ...
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Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting
Highland Road Park ObservatoryFor over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of lunar, planetary and deep-sky gazing; and factors to consider when buying ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “2025–The Space Year in Review”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryTradition continues with HRPO's cornerstone program looking back at the discoveries, advances and celestial events of the previous year.
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Evening Sky Viewing
Highland Road Park ObservatorySunset, 5:51pm CST. Twilight Ends, 7:13pm CST. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below the horizon. ...
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Science Academy: “The Mercury Program”
Highland Road Park ObservatoryScott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shephard, Deke Slayton. These mens' names have passed into history and into legend. Many Cadets know why; now the ...