Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club Meeting

Highland Road Park Observatory

For over eighty-five years the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club has introduced the local area to the Amateur Radio Service and all its benefits. During this meeting officers and members ...

Evening Sky Viewing

Highland Road Park Observatory

CANCELLED --- HRPO will close by at least 9:45pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below ...

Science Academy: “Radical Radioactivity”

Highland Road Park Observatory

Radioactivity is very often confused for radiation, and vice-versa. Cadets will learn how to never again be at a loss for understanding! To register, go to www.brec.org, access the registration ...

Evening Sky Viewing

Highland Road Park Observatory

CANCELLED --- HRPO will close by at least 9pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning crescent Moon will be below ...

Solar Viewing

Highland Road Park Observatory

Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in three different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light and directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength) will take place. During ...

Friday Night Lecture Series: “Wonders of the Summer Sky”

Highland Road Park Observatory

The temperature rises as summer's constellations settle high overhead early in the night. BREC Education Program Specialist Amy Northrop takes the audience on a fascinating tour of Baton Rouge's upcoming ...

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 13° in Gemini. Please keep ...

Science Academy: “Solar Maximum II”

Highland Road Park Observatory

The twenty-four months 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 25; sketch ...

Evening Sky Viewing

Highland Road Park Observatory

NOAA Air Quality Alert (until 12am CDT) Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing crescent Moon will be at a maximum ...

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 ...

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