People of Earth!
We come in peace...
to share wonders of OUR Universe!
We offer the DELUXE stargazing experience featuring:
  • Lots of BIG telescopes = more viewing & less queueing
  • Expert telescope operators
  • Fun and funny laser constellation tours
  • A variety of hi-tech educational multimedia shows
  • Unparalleled enthusiasm for sharing astronomy
  • Model rocket workshops
  • Astrophotography lessons
  • AND  much, much, MORE.
Add us to your must-do list when traveling near Bryce Canyon National Park. Join us for  public telescope tours which are capped at 21 people (winter) or 42 people (summer).  Alternatively,  when you book a  large or small private telescope tour, you can customize that night to your specific group interests.
Yes, reservations are required.
That way we will know how many
telescopes to set up.
 Our NEXT Special Event...

Super Moon Lunar Eclipse
Sun. January 20, 2019

Join us for one of our favorite astronomical events -- a lunar eclipse! The evening begins by viewing the Moonrise, Mars, Uranus, and Neptune through our BIG Telescopes. Then, while we wait for our Moon to enter Earth's shadow, we will warm up with a live indoor show about our Solar System.

When we go back outside our Moon will go into a totality that will last for 62 minutes! This will give us plenty of time to show you high definition 1000x magnified views of the lunar surface including Apollo landing sites with clarity only possible during an eclipse. Also during a lunar eclipse, all the deep space objects suddenly become visible to our BIG telescopes: star-birth and star-death nebulae; star clusters; and other galaxies. It's our invaluable dark sky, rather than our expensive telescopes that reveals the most dramatic view during a lunar eclipse -- both neighboring arms of our own Milky Way Galaxy. At the Dark Ranger Observatory, the sky is dark enough to reveal the Sagittarius Arm and the much fainter Orion Spur -- the later being a site to behold that most humans will never see.

Buy your tickets now, as with all of our winter telescope tours, attendance is limited by the size of our indoor auditorium (21 people).
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