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
No charge today · free changes until 14 days out
Forecast for these nights
Camila Arriaza
Lead astronomer, Atacama
The window is chosen first and everything else follows from it: new moon, dry season, core culmination near vertical. Nights run from astronomical twilight to about 04:00 with a warm break at midnight. Days are for sleep and processing — Camila runs a two-hour editing clinic each afternoon on the terrace.
Altitude acclimatisation, equipment setup at the observing field, and a slow naked-eye tour while your eyes learn what 21.9 mag/arcsec² actually means.
First full imaging session on the Sagittarius region. Polar alignment drill, tracker calibration, and a 4-hour wide-field sequence.
Both Clouds high and clean. Long focal length work on Tarantula, plus a naked-eye session on the Large Cloud's internal structure.
The Coalsack, the Dark Horse, and the Pipe. Camila's session on reading absorption structure rather than emission.
Your targets, your plan. Ends with a group review of everyone's best frame from the week over coffee at 04:30.
Level
Enthusiast
You own a scope or camera and know your way around the sky.
“People come for the photographs. What actually changes them is the ten minutes when nobody says anything.”