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11/04/2026

I make these Polaris finders by hand in my shop out of the scrap material used for other projects-I really like mirrors and usually have a lot of leftover material from those projects.

The diagram gives you a place to start: the two stars at the outer edge of the Big Dipper’s bowl point toward Polaris, the North Star.

Once you recognize a few landmarks, looking up feels different. You can find your way back to something familiar, then start noticing what’s around it.

That’s the idea behind these little finders.

1 per person included on our private tours, also available for purchase in our shop

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11/01/2026

Visiting northern Arizona with family this November?

Whether you’re coming in from out of town or gathering everyone in Flagstaff, a private night under the stars is a pretty special way to spend some time together. There’s room to relax, laugh, ask questions, and share the excitement of seeing something new through a telescope.

We keep it friendly and easygoing, with an astronomy guide just for your family. No astronomy knowledge needed, and plenty of time to follow everyone’s curiosity.

We can even bring the experience to your rental or home if the property has suitable space and clear enough views of the sky. We’ll review the location with you beforehand to make sure it’s a good fit.

We regularly bring our tours to Flagstaff, Sedona, Williams, Valle, Parks, and other northern Arizona communities. We’d love to help make your family’s visit a little more memorable.

Explore our experiences and check dates:
https://www.flagstaffstargazing.com/toursandevents

10/31/2026

That soft glow is another galaxy.

It is impossibly far away, filled with more stars than we could ever count, and still visible from right here in northern Arizona when the sky is dark enough.

Views like this are why dark skies matter. The sky stops looking flat and starts feeling enormous.

Come see what’s up there.
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10/28/2026

There are places where the Milky Way is part of the landscape.

Not a faint streak you have to strain to find—something that rises overhead and changes the entire feeling of the night.

Northern Arizona gives us that kind of sky. Our job is to get people somewhere dark enough to notice it, then give them time to take it in.

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10/24/2026

Before anyone looks through a telescope, there’s a little work to do.

We set up in the dark, settle into the landscape, and make sure there’s room for the night to unfold at its own pace. Then the first stars come out, the questions start, and the equipment becomes a way to connect with a sky most people rarely get to experience.

That’s what we’re building in northern Arizona: a thoughtful, private night under genuinely dark skies.

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10/21/2026

The best part of a stargazing tour is watching someone get curious.

One look through the telescope turns into another question. Then someone points out something overhead, and suddenly we’re deciding what to look at next.

That’s the kind of night I like to create out here in northern Arizona. Plenty to see, time to ask questions, and no pressure to already know anything about astronomy.

Come spend a night under the stars with us.
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10/16/2026

There’s a difference between seeing the Milky Way in a photo and standing beneath it yourself. Under Northern Arizona’s dark skies, it stretches over the landscape in a way that makes you stop and take it in.

The quiet, the scale of the stars overhead, and that moment when you realize just how much is up there—that’s what it’s all about. Our astronomy equipment helps bring the objects in the sky into clear, detailed view, but the experience begins as soon as you look up.

Some of the darkest skies in the country are right here in Northern Arizona. We’d love to share them with you.

10/07/2026

A private session at Desert View Watchtower.

FSA is commercially authorized by Grand Canyon National Park under a Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) to provide private stargazing experiences at Desert View — which means this couple had the rim, the sky, and the Watchtower to themselves after dark.

Private Grand Canyon experiences start at $695 for two guests. If you're visiting the Grand Canyon region and want an evening that's genuinely different from anything else on the itinerary, this is it.

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10/04/2026

On private group nights and star parties, we typically run multiple instruments simultaneously — different apertures, different fields of view, different targets.

Guests can move between them. While one scope is on a wide star cluster, another might be on a galaxy or a planetary nebula. The variety is part of how a longer session stays engaging.

Most people have looked through a telescope at some point. Running several at once, in a dark Northern Arizona sky, is a different experience.

10/02/2026

A globular cluster contains anywhere from tens of thousands to several million stars, all gravitationally bound together, orbiting the center of the galaxy as a single unit.

This one is M13 — the Great Cluster in Hercules, about 25,000 light-years away. Through a telescope, individual stars begin to resolve toward the edges of the cluster, with the core growing progressively denser toward the center.

When we're observing, we usually let people look for a minute before saying anything. The reaction tends to do the explaining better than we could.

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