Private Tours

- Group size and age by negotiation
- Duration 1.5 hours or by negotiation
- Price: $95 per person or by negotiation if time is altered
- Start approximately 30 minutes after sunset, at 6:00 pm (18:00)
- Bespoke location
Our bespoke personalised sessions are flexible, we can bring the telescope to you or meet you at a specific location.
This experience offers a unique and relaxed opportunity to explore our starry skies in privacy.
Perfect for special occasions and tailored to your unique interests and curiosity, a private viewing promises an evening of discovery and wonder.
Our expert astronomy guides will lead you on a unique journey, revealing the secrets of our southern skies. With naked-eye, binocular and telescope observations you’ll discover planets, constellations, distant stars, and galaxies.
Tour Highlights:
- Private tour for your group (from 2 – 10)
- Naked-eye introduction orientation to explore our starry neighborhood above
- Use of our Binoculars for a closer look.
- Viewings through our 8” Dobsonian telescopes for even closer looks of breathtaking southern deep sky objects
- Comfortable outdoor seating with cosy blankets to snuggle up with, relax and watch the stars twinkle above.
- Hot drink and astro snacks to keep you warm.
- Follow up emails of what you saw on the night, (so you don’t forget how gorgeous it is up there!) *along with a lasting memory of a group photo of you under the southern skies.
- Tour duration: 60 -90 minutes
- As sunset times vary throughout the year, our tour start times will be set accordingly, to ensure optimal viewing conditions.
- Please refer to our Terms and Conditions for further details, including our cancellation policy.
- Upon arrival you will be briefed on Health and Safety (H&S) and asked to sign the H&S form.
- Please note that nights are cold in New Zealand and you need to dress appropriately. It is good to wear warm top and bottom and take extra jacket and wind-proof layer. Shoes must be warm and comfortable, ideally – water resistant, because you will be in natural environment and sometimes grass gets wet due to dew.
- Please contact us or text/ring if you need special assistance

