Wine Country Star Gazing can be a fun addition to the entertainment at your next evening event.  Located in Napa, California, the telescope and your star guide Michael are available for events located throughout the wine country and the north bay area.

To reserve a star party for your next evening event, call 707 337 9410 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Reservation calendar coming soon, but for now just let me know your preferred dates and I'll let you know my availability.

There are a number of people with small telescopes offering this kind of entertainment service.  The view through my instrument however is not a little backyard telescope kind of view.  Views are breathtakingly large and bright.  Looking in the eyepiece you have to look around to see it all.  The telescope transports on a trailer, and takes an hour before and an hour after the event to set up and take down, in addition to an hour prepping for the event before, and an hour putting it all away after arriving back home.  So not counting travel time, gas expense, or viewing time it takes me four hours.  A typical event lasts about four hours, so I'm into it for about 8 hours not counting travel time.  My price is probably more than you can find with smaller instruments, but I'm not trying to make a living at this so it's gotta be worth it to me to do all that work.  I guarantee it will be worth it to you and your guests though.  This will be an experience people will remember for the rest of their life, and will forever associate your business or branding with the memory. 

At a typical event people spend about 1-2 minutes on each object.  A group of 30 people therefor get to see about 4-5 objects in a 4 hour viewing session.  Fewer people get to see more objects, while larger groups may see fewer objects.  In any given sky however there are only about half a dozen cool things to see.

My base rate is $400.  Travel outside the local area may incur additional cost, and larger groups requiring additional astronomers and telescopes also adds of course.