thANKS for Stargazing with US!
Please download some FREE digital keepsakes from your experience with us.
These are copyright free for your personal (non-commercial) use. Post them on your social media. Use them as visual aids in your review(s). You could print them and put them on the refrigerator for house guests to notice, when they make a late night raid on the leftover pizza.
These are the astronomical things we saw last night!
Dark Ranger Seth "The Late Night Guy" snaped these images with 15-30 seconds exposures from his cell phone (and it's not even a particularly great one), and an inexpensive digi-scope adapter. Yes, he's talented, and his patience are conducive, but he's the first to tell you it's mostly about the size and optical quality of our telescopes. Cell-phone astrophotogrpahy lessons are a new add-on we are offering for Dark Ranger Late Night session and or Small Private Telescope Tours. Seth might not always be available to be your guide, but he's taught the rest of us some of his skill too.
Of course we also sell (starting at the low-low price of a $.50 postcard) professional astrophotography created from our same BIG telescopes. Instead of single snap these image were created by painstaking compiling hours of imagery using professional cameras by Dark Rangers: Thomas, Richard, and Liam.
In the meantime we hope you enjoy and can make good use of these.
Of course we also sell (starting at the low-low price of a $.50 postcard) professional astrophotography created from our same BIG telescopes. Instead of single snap these image were created by painstaking compiling hours of imagery using professional cameras by Dark Rangers: Thomas, Richard, and Liam.
In the meantime we hope you enjoy and can make good use of these.
We have local competitors in the space space!
Our popularity has inspired some copycat competition in Southern Utah's tourism industry. We welcome the competition, especially if they are as eager to help us protect our majestic night sky from the unnecessary expansion of light pollution, as they are to become profitable too.
We think stargazing is like eating pizza. While all pizza is good, connoisseurs of authentic Italian food know that some pizza is definitely better than others. But if you've never had pizza before, how would you know the difference? What if your first slice of pizza had BOTH anchovies and broccoli on it? Might that leave such a bad taste in your mouth that you'd develop an aversion to all things Astronomy and Space Science? Sorry I mean pizza! ;-)
This is where online reviews can help new consumers start out with a more discerning taste, which inspires better pizza from everybody, for everyone.
We think stargazing is like eating pizza. While all pizza is good, connoisseurs of authentic Italian food know that some pizza is definitely better than others. But if you've never had pizza before, how would you know the difference? What if your first slice of pizza had BOTH anchovies and broccoli on it? Might that leave such a bad taste in your mouth that you'd develop an aversion to all things Astronomy and Space Science? Sorry I mean pizza! ;-)
This is where online reviews can help new consumers start out with a more discerning taste, which inspires better pizza from everybody, for everyone.
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Dark Rangers take pride sharing our love of astronomy, but the goal is not to meet your expectations, but to increase your expectations for your next stargazing experience, be it another night with us, or somebody else. This social contract goes both ways. It means that if your constructive critique insists that, like you, most people prefer anchovies on their pizza (as well as looking at fake-photons provided from a digital camera masquerading as a tiny telescope), we'll hear you out. But since astronomy entertainment is not just our livelihood but our educational and career life choices, we might question as to whether you are getting your pizza and gumbo recipes mixed up.
