Space Exploration Camp (Spring)
This two-day, thrice-a-year offering gives kids a front-row seat for hands-on exploration of current STEM developments; the latest in astronomical discoveries; and construction and launch of a chemical rocket.Â
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “Local Sky Survey”
Friday Night Lecture Series: “Local Sky Survey”
This new annual presentation (an amalgam of earlier discontinued talks) will provide a baseline for where Baton Rouge skygazers stand regarding acquisition of the Sun and Moon; planets; asteroids and ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 ...
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Science Academy: “Life Cycle of a Star”
Science Academy: “Life Cycle of a Star”
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 ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 ...
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Partial Solar Eclipse
Partial Solar Eclipse
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 ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Mercury Astronauts”
Friday Night Lecture Series: “The Mercury Astronauts”
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 ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 ...
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Science Academy: “The Periodic Table”
Science Academy: “The Periodic Table”
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 ...
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Plus Night: “The Mystery Box”
Plus Night: “The Mystery Box”
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 ...
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Light Pollution Committee Meeting
Light Pollution Committee Meeting
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 ...
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Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting
Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meeting
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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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 ...
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Science Academy: “Solar Maximum I”
Science Academy: “Solar Maximum I”
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 ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a maximum altitude of 56° in Virgo. Please keep ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “Unsettling Stories”
Friday Night Lecture Series: “Unsettling Stories”
As the cool and fog wind down to make way for the warmth of late spring, let's retain some of that chill with a collection of STEM stories guaranteed to ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 while parking and ...
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Solar Viewing
Solar Viewing
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 ...
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STEM Expansion: “Aerospace Engineering I”
STEM Expansion: “Aerospace Engineering I”
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 ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 while parking and ...
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Friday Night Lecture Series: “Zodiac Dreams”
Friday Night Lecture Series: “Zodiac Dreams”
What really is the Zodiac, and how many constellations does it have? Due to some news stories, internet videos and op-ed pieces you may be confused--but don't worry. We'll clear ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 ...
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Science Academy: “ISS Expedition 6”
Science Academy: “ISS Expedition 6”
The International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From November 2002 to May 2003 Ken Bowersox, Nikolai Budarin and Don Pettit conducted experiments and ...
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Evening Sky Viewing
Evening Sky Viewing
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 ...