A full lunation-dark week with a 20" Dobsonian, working an observing list of 90 southern objects.
From, per person
$5,240
No charge today · free changes until 14 days out
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Naledi Shipanga
Reserve warden, NamibRand
This is a serious visual observing trip, not a sightseeing one. Naledi hands you a printed list of ninety objects on arrival and you work it. Nights are seven hours long, temperatures drop below freezing, and by night four most people stop checking the time.
Eyepiece selection, sketching basics, and establishing your personal limiting magnitude.
Four hours inside a single nebula. Homunculus, Keyhole, and the surrounding clusters.
Nineteen globular clusters between dusk and dawn, ranked by resolvability.
Individual objects inside the LMC — clusters and nebulae resolved as separate targets.
Sculptor and Fornax groups, pushing to magnitude 14.5 with averted vision.
Filter comparison night — OIII against UHC against nothing at all.
Whatever remains on the ninety, plus a dawn sketch review over the dunes.
Level
Advanced
Long imaging sessions, technical targets, cold nights.
“My grandmother named the same stars differently. Both maps get you home.”