Eighty percent of the world can no longer see the Milky Way. Perigee maps what is left, forecasts the nights worth travelling for, and puts an astronomer next to you when you get there.
Tonight, best on the network
Atacama Plateau
Chile · 2680 m
The platform is built around the order an experienced observer actually thinks in — site, then weather, then timing, then people.
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Darkest SQM on the network
Filter 12 protected sites by Bortle class, SQM reading, altitude, terrain and how many clear nights they actually deliver. The map shows real light domes so you can see what you are escaping.
Every location on Perigee has field SQM readings, a verified light-dome survey and at least one resident guide. Hover the list to locate each one.
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New moon window
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Each trip is built around a specific astronomical window — new moon, core culmination, a shower peak — and led by the astronomer who lives there.
Atacama Plateau · Chile
Five moonless nights on the plateau timed to put the galactic core at zenith between 01:00 and 03:00.
From, per person
$3,480
Abisko Corridor · Sweden
Four nights under the auroral oval with a mobile chase plan and a daily 16:00 go/no-go call.
From, per person
$1,980
Namib Sand Sea · Namibia
A full lunation-dark week with a 20" Dobsonian, working an observing list of 90 southern objects.
From, per person
$5,240
Eleven tracked events for the year, each mapped to the sites where it presents best.
The Sagittarius core reaches its highest and darkest presentation of the year from southern sites, culminating near zenith in the small hours across a five-night moonless window. The single best imaging opportunity on the southern calendar.
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Peak 01:00–03:30 local · Jun 14, 2026
Every guide on the platform is based at their site year-round, owns their equipment, and has veto power over whether a night goes ahead.
Unedited notes from travellers, collected two weeks after each expedition ends.
I have photographed the Milky Way on four continents and I was still not ready for the plateau. On the second night the core was bright enough to throw a shadow off my tripod leg. Camila had the whole week planned around a two-hour window and she was right about every one of them.
Elena Reyes
Landscape photographer, Madrid
Tomas called at 16:00 on day two and said do not bother, sleep instead, we go tomorrow. That honesty is the entire product. Night three we had a full corona directly overhead for forty minutes and nobody in the group said a word the whole time.
Daniel Okonkwo
Software engineer, Berlin
I booked the two-night beginner trip mostly to humour my partner. I have since bought a telescope, joined a club, and rebooked for the Namib week. Hiroshi starts from absolute zero without ever making you feel like a beginner.
Sophie Marchand
Physician, Lyon
Ninety objects in seven nights and I logged eighty-four of them. The 20-inch under a Bortle 1 sky shows things I had only ever seen in photographs. Naledi's Khoikhoi star lore session on night five was the part I have talked about most since.
Marcus Feldt
Amateur astronomer, Toronto
Standing in two centimetres of water with stars underneath your boots is genuinely disorienting. I lost my sense of up for a moment. The mirror window is short and Perigee timed it exactly right — the wind dropped on the second night and the water went completely still.
Yuki Tanaka
Product designer, Osaka
The two acclimatisation nights in Leh felt like wasted time until night four, when I was the only person in the group without a headache. Sonam builds the schedule around your body first and the sky second. Hanle at 4,500 metres is worth every hour of the drive.
Priya Nair
Research scientist, Bengaluru
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