Four skies
Where the sky is still dark
The Bortle scale measures how much artificial light leaks into the sky: 1 is a perfect sky, 9 is the centre of a city. Bogotá sits at 8. These four territories sit between 1 and 3.
Sky calendar
The trip is booked around the sky
Not the other way round. These are the windows worth waiting for.
Ancestral knowledge
This sky already had names before the telescope
The Kogui of the Sierra Nevada read the Pleiades to know when to sow. The Muisca aligned El Infiernito with the solstices. The Wayúu navigated La Guajira by stars that appear on no European chart. A knowledge-holder from the community travels on every route, not only an astronomer.
Kogui — Sierra Nevada
The Pleiades mark the farming calendar. The mamos read their heliacal rising to open the sowing; the sky here is an instrument, not a landscape.
Muisca — Altiplano
El Infiernito aligns its monoliths with the solstices. Architecture built to measure the year before the Gregorian calendar existed in the Americas.
Wayúu — La Guajira
Constellations of their own that order the rains, the fishing and the cycles of mourning. Names with no equivalent on European star charts.
Operations
What a well-run night takes
01
Weather and moon window
We cross moon phase, cloud history and your target before proposing a date. If the window is no good, we say so.
02
Optics on site
Dobsonian and refractor telescopes, equatorial mounts for astrophotography and astronomical binoculars for the whole group.
03
Astronomer guide
Guiding from someone who can read the southern sky, plus a knowledge-holder from the local community on the routes that have one.
04
Night logistics
Transfers, hot drinks, thermal gear and a red-light protocol. Operating at night in desert or páramo is not improvised.
Tell us what you want to see and we tell you when to go
Whether it is the Milky Way, a meteor shower or deep-sky astrophotography, the date is not negotiable. Tell us the target and we build the window.