Andean Sky Tour: Telescope Observation and Photos

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Explore the cosmos in Atacama: Andean worldview talk, telescope planet viewing, and astrophotography session with a professional camera.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Mars Valley / Death Valley - Embark on the Astrophotographic Tour, featuring images of one of the clearest skies for stargazing.
Participants will gather at the designated meeting point to travel 10 km from San Pedro de Atacama to the location where the activity will take place.
This Astrophotographic Tour is set in an area with minimal light…

What's Included

Snacks
In-vehicle air conditioning
2 high resolution photographs in digital format

Additional Information

The tour, which is divided into three stages, will have a talk about the Andean worldview, telescope observation, with which you will be able to see planets and some details of them that are not visible to the naked eye, and a photo session with the sky.

Professional camera (Full Frame) with lens and special adaptations for portrait and landscape astrophotography.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Ricardoca4566af

Oct 13, 2025

Experience satisfied - Excellent experience and adventure. The entire itinerary proposed by the agency has been completed. Excellent way of attending, communicating and empathy. It's been an excellent adventure with you. If I have any family, friends or acquaintances. I'll recommend that agency.

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851maryac

Oct 6, 2025

It's worth it - The guide explains details of the sky and its constellations, then we have the opportunity to see some stars and planets by the telescope. On a night without a full moon should be even more interesting.

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Cristianhe8306bx

Aug 20, 2025

Excellent experience - Very good experience, very friendly and professional staff, nice Mood and very entertaining, recommend!

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Excursion60804319680

Aug 15, 2025

A magical night in the desert. - A magical night in the desert. Under the clearest sky in the world, we saw Saturn and Jupiter through the telescope, heard ancestral stories and toasted with wine and hot chocolate. The Astronomical Tour of Expediciones San Pedro is science, culture and emotion in one moment — impossible not to be enchanted.

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283vivis

Aug 5, 2025

a beautiful tour, you learn a lot and see the universe with a super professional guide - Those who actually do the tour (Daniel and his team) are fantastic. 100% professional, they dedicate whatever it takes for you to understand, understand and finally end up marveling at the tour (and of course the magnificent universe). We learned so much!! and then highlight the time spent seeing the stars, planet Saturn and of course the moon, Everything is fantastic. Those who sell you the tour (tour operator and the local agency in San Pedro de Atacama) are different companies. Very disorganized, they fill you to WhatsApp and ask you for information again. Then they send you several messages and among all, we received one where they asked us to pay again!! Hopefully Daniel reads this comment, as you rating that he loves what he does and cares about having a team that maintains his level of professionalism and dedication.

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602rajivb

Oct 4, 2025

Amazing night sight! - The night was appropriate (three-quarter moon). The sights were exhilarating! The guide too was very knowledgeable. Hopefully, when we receive the Moon, Saturn, and Concentration of Stars' HD photos; as also the promised two photos per person (for which we are still waiting), these will be fabulous too! And then followed by mulled wine + snacks. So, all the right ticks. However, the guide/astronomy expert, on being asked a naive question or being given an incorrect reply, should not mock, after asking one's nationality. It pinched!

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Ron

Mar 7, 2026

Astronomy adventure. - This review is really for information only. First, what the tour is, and what it is not. It is a spanish speaking tour with some english translation. About 80/20 to be fair. Second it is not a small group, ours had 16 people and two busses. Third, if you are looking for an opportunity to photograph the night sky, this is not it. This is a lecture where you can look at a couple of objects through a telescope, and the guide will take a photo of you, and provide you a few photos taken with the telescope. There will be snacks at the end and a ride home, we'll at least close to home, our driver dropped us a block from the hotel. If this is what you are looking for, then this is the tour for you.

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Gedumavi

Dec 28, 2025

Good experience bad service - Seeing the stars in Atacama is amazing however the detail is in service, so I can not give a good rating to this tour. They changed my tour date by mistake from the organizers, they never faced me and I had to advance the flight so I could take it.

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Barry_b

Jul 9, 2025

3 stars - The tour is nicely conceived. Wine, stargazing and a surprise at the end. Only the problem is as follows: The stars could hardly be seen, if at all. I didn't get a message in advance that the stars wouldn't be clearly visible, because the moon was growing. I would have appreciated this and to avoid disappointment, the tour operator could have offered me options, such as cancelling or moving to another day for example, free of charge. The pictures on the page were taken with an ultra high resolution lens and flash so you could see the stars in the background. I would have appreciated looking at options and therefore I can only really give max 3 stars, because other parts were decent.

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Rafael

Jun 14, 2025

Well, but I haven't seen the pictures as beautiful as in the tour advertisement - The tour is interesting and some aspects of the atros are explained, but it was not possible to see much because the guide said the moon was very clear making it difficult to see the Milky Way.

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up to 14 guests

1 - Adult