Stargazing in the Atacama Desert

An astronomer-led night-sky outing in the Atacama, with guidance on constellations and reading the sky.

Two visitors look up at the Milky Way over a dark desert landscape.
The story

The Atacama desert in northern Chile has the clearest night skies on Earth. It is high, dry (one of the driest places in the world) and unpolluted.

Gaze at the sparkling stars of the Atacama Desert with an expert astronomer and learn about constellations and how to read the sky without a telescope.

You will be able to enjoy a star tour on a clear night, apart from a 6 days period around the full moon. It allows people without any prior knowledge of the sky to understand how to look at it, and observe as well through powerful telescopes, and discover a new world, our universe ! And from one of the best place on Earth to see the sky, the Atacama desert.

While you can find a lot of astronomical photographs on the web, there is nothing like the experience of visual observing. Everybody has seen images of Saturn, but the first time you really see the planet with your own eyes through a telescope becomes a moment to remember.

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