Explore Temecula’s night skies with a customizable stargazing tour. Use powerful telescopes and binoculars to view planets, stars, and galaxies.
- Temecula - Your night tour guide will lead you through a full night sky experience which will vary slightly throughout the year and lunar cycle. Most tours will engage from near to far starting with Earth’s closest celestial neighbor - the Moon. We’ll spend time viewing the Moon visually and electronically ensuring that everyone has hands-on time. Next we’ll move deeper into the solar system with views of what ever planets are available during your tour. We’ll then move to deep sky objects viewing nebula, star clusters and galaxies. The evening will have everyone saying WOW at least once. The tour will include an introduction to astro photography using a smart scope to demonstrate how world-class telescopes obtain such amazing images.
NOTE: The start time will vary throughout the year but will normally begin about 1 hour after sunset. Roughly 6:30pm in Winter, 7:30 in Spring, 8:30 in Summer, 7:30 in Fall
- Camp chairs
- Visual Telescope
- Smart Telescope
- Private transportation
What to expect
Take advantage of the dark night skies outside of Temecula’s wine country go stargazing with fully customizable tour. Get a closer view of the cosmos and learn more about the universe from our friendly staff.
Meet at the observing location near wine country at the designated tour time. Get an overview of the constellations with a laser pointer, then take turns at the large and powerful telescope which will enable you to easily view planets, stars, galaxies, nebulas, and star clusters.
In between turns, guests can view the sky with wide-view binoculars while resting in a comfortable chair. Feel free to ask your astronomer guides questions and to customize what you want to see during the 1-hour experience.
- Some walking over uneven terrain is required
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.