The people who read the night.

Spent nine years on the operations team at Paranal before moving to guiding full time. Camila runs the longest-standing programme on the plateau and knows exactly which ravine blocks the wind on any given night. She keeps a hand-drawn logbook of every object she has shown a guest since 2012.

Former SMHI meteorologist who reads the solar wind the way other people read a bus timetable. Tomas built the short-range aurora model that Perigee licenses for its northern sites, and he still calls every guest personally at 16:00 to say whether the night is worth the drive.

Grew up on a farm inside what is now the reserve and helped survey the light measurements that earned it dark sky status. Naledi teaches southern-sky navigation using both the IAU constellations and the Khoikhoi star lore she learned from her grandmother.

Twelve total solar eclipses on five continents, and a processing workflow he has refined for two decades. Hiroshi's sessions are unusually technical — he will happily spend an hour on flat-field calibration if that is what is standing between you and a clean image.

Ran high-altitude trekking logistics for a decade before the reserve was declared, and now coordinates the village astronomy ambassador programme in Hanle. Sonam handles acclimatisation schedules as seriously as observing plans, because at 4,500 m the two are the same problem.

Planetary observer with 400+ published Jupiter and Mars drawings, working the Roque ridge since 2013. Marta's speciality is the high-magnification night: picking the two hours when seeing holds steady and pushing a scope past 400×.