First Light
For anyone who has never looked through a telescope. The moon, visible planets, and the three brightest stars of the night, with a guide by your side the whole time.
Star Chart No. 1846 The first star that appears at dusk has a name. Come up to the mesa and spend a night with her.
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9% illumination, dark sky0.8″
excellent · Pickering scale 8/1092%
NE wind 4 mph · no high cloudsopens 7:04 PM
sunset 5:39 PM · end of twilight 6:52 PMFor anyone who has never looked through a telescope. The moon, visible planets, and the three brightest stars of the night, with a guide by your side the whole time.
Nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies through the 20-inch main telescope. Includes a star chart reading and a logbook of the night.
The whole night on the platform, from dusk to dawn. Coffee before sunrise, a heated sleeping bag, and the rise of Venus, the morning star, as the grand finale.
A 20-inch Ritchey-Chrétien reflector, mounted at 6,070 feet, above the thermal inversion layer, far from any city light. The same optical design used by the great professional observatories, at a human scale: you sit down, lean in, and look.
bookings open August 1 · waitlist by email hello@vesperobservatory.com