Sedona Night Sky Tour: Explore with Astronomers
4.7
25 Ratings
Sedona

Explore Sedona’s night sky with expert astronomers, advanced telescopes, and 4K displays. Perfect for families, couples, and curious minds. Book your stargazing tour now.

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Sedona - Experience a guided tour to a remote dark sky location, far from the city lights of Sedona. Here, telescopes will be set up to take you on an extraordinary cosmic adventure!
    A guide will use a laser to outline constellations and highlight fascinating objects such as the Milky Way, planets, meteor showers, or passing satellites. Following…
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What's Included
  • State-of-the-art observatory class telescopes
  • Exclusive access to dark sky sites on USFS managed forest land and private ranches
  • Live views of deep space streamed to our 4k monitor
  • Premium, large aperture telescopes utilizing the best eyepieces available
  • Small group sizes (up to twelve), ensuring a personal and intimate experience
What's Not Included
  • Tea and coffee
  • Snacks
Additional Information

Discover a new way to explore Sedona’s night sky with Chris the “Night Owl” and his team of astronomers! See dust lanes in distant galaxies, the pinkish glow of hydrogen clouds in stellar nurseries, colorful remnants of dead stars, and much more. Our cutting-edge electronic telescopes capture detailed images that normal telescopes can’t show you and…

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Location
Sedona
We host stargazing tours at multiple select dark sky sites, all located within a half hour drive of downtown Sedona. Some are located on forest service lands, and are accessed under a seasonal USFS permit. We will provide detailed directions to your night's meeting point upon tour confirmation.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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H4623hemichaelp
Sep 22, 2025
Great star tour - My wife and I did the tour last week and it was amazing! Christopher was a great guide to the stars. He was very knowledgeable and enjoyed sharing that with us. State of the art equipment, telescopes and viewing the sky on the monitors enhanced our experience!
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Robpu3006sy
Sep 17, 2025
Black Sky Adventure! - Chris was very knowledgable & clear in communicating the night sky on our tour. Looking thru his 18 inch large telescope was awesome & then seeing on TV screen from his computer operated telescope the difference in what CAN be seen was impressive.
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Z970tqkimw
Aug 18, 2025
Must-do activity for ant Sedona visit - Sedona is a certified dark sky area. Take advantage of the low light pollution and go on a dark sky tour with Night Owl tours. You drive about 30 minutes from the village of Oak Creek out to the location where the stargazing is done. It’s a pleasant drive. The last three or 4 miles are on a dirt road that can be done by any type of vehicle but does require a little bit of care. Once on top of the hill, you’re greeted by Chris and all of his fabulous toys. He’s got chairs for you, a big screen TV, and two of the coolest telescopes I’ve ever seen. Chris is incredibly knowledgeable in astronomy and will take you on a tour of the stars like nothing you have ever seen. You’ll get to look through the telescope yourself at the various things that he’s pointing out and hear all about our galaxy and other galaxies in the universe. The sky view from the stargazing area cannot adequately be described. On a clear night the amount of stars you can see is limitless. Make time to do this while you’re visiting Sedona because it’s absolutely worth the effort.
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Abby_r
Jun 29, 2025
Stargazers - The experience operator Chris was wonderfully knowledgeable and friendly. Our family had an excellent time. Can’t wait to do it again in the winter with a new sky! If you’re thinking about doing this BOOK IT! it’s awesome. You get to experience two different telescopes on top of the amazing views with the naked eye - sky out here is incredible. Chris is great!
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Sue_v
May 30, 2025
An Awesome Night-sky Tour of the Heavens! - It was a great experience! They were prepared for all 10 of the people that came by having chairs and blankets for us to use. They had two telescopes but we only looked through one (which was fine), the other was what they used to find the distant galaxies and then projected onto a large tv. We saw things that we never imagined we would. Chis and Kim are great hosts and are very good at keeping everyone busy seeing things we never imagined. It was a wonderful first night activity for our time in Sedona! We highly recommend this!
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Steve_s
May 21, 2025
Excellent Dark Sky Deep Space Tour - We had a wonderful time. We got to see star clusters, nebula and galaxies from deep space as well as planets and star clusters in our solar system. The projection on the television and manual viewing through telescopes was a nice mix. We appreciated the warm blankets and cozy chairs. As backyard telescopes it was wonderful to see objects we can’t see or find on our own especially in our light polluted town. Our teen loved this tour as it was a great addition to her astronomy course from this school year. So glad we did this tour!
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Elizbeth_b
May 16, 2025
Great experience, very knowledgeable! - Chris and Kim were awesome! Very knowledgeable and fun and funny. A great experience overall. You will not know the meeting point until the day of. That was a minor stress for me but Chris called and eased my mind.
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Christina_b
May 14, 2025
I've never seen the sky... - I've never seen the sky like this before. This was an incredibly unique experience, with opportunities to use the telescope. Chris and Kim were very knowledgeable and communicated clearly about the night's location.
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Y7278fprebeccaw
Aug 4, 2025
Great all around experience, terrific equipment! - The equipment was phenomenal but we only saw 5 objects in the telescope and 2 images on the screen. We were hoping for more! Saw Saturn in the scope which was thrilling. The laser pointing out the constellations was awesome. Hint to viewers: To speed things up with 12 people, stand in line at the scope instead of leaving your chair one at a time.
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Katrina_k
Sep 2, 2025
Disorganized and not worth the money - The tour leader/astronomer was completely disorganized, he didn’t have the equipment set up - we waited over half an hour from the scheduled start of the tour while he set it up He would take at least 10 minutes going between/setting up the two telescopes in between looking at one object in the sky and did this mostly without speaking so we sat and waited in silence until he would start speaking again. This made the tour, which was supposed to start at 8:30pm, drag out unnecessarily. We were exhausted from our day exploring and expecting much more organization and a bit of a faster pace. He didn’t seem to have self awareness about how the tour was coming across either. He finally had to end the tour because the clouds made it difficult to see much. He was apologetic and very knowledgeable but the overall presentation was scattered and too drawn out. We appreciated he said we would be given a full refund in light of all the issues, but would not necessarily recommend spending time on this.
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