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Stargazing with a 20 Inch Telescope and Teide Sunset
Important Information
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Not recommended for pregnant travelers
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Two separate experiences in one evening, at two different sites.
First the sunset: a viewpoint high above the cloud layer, a glass of sparkling wine, and the volcanic landscape turning from ochre to deep red as the light goes.
Then the sky takes over.
At a second observing site, accredited professional astronomers work a 500 mm Sky-Watcher Stargate GoTo telescope — a 20-inch mirror that gathers four times the light of a 250 mm instrument. A digital eyepiece adds what the eye cannot do: nebulae and galaxies appear in colour on screen, while you see the real object through the eyepiece itself.
Highlights
3 hours
Offered in English & Hungarian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
3 hours
Offered in English & Hungarian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Observation through a 500 mm (20-inch) Sky-Watcher Stargate GoTo telescope, with digital eyepiece
Welcome glass of sparkling wine (non-alcoholic option available on request)
Accredited professional astronomers
Souvenir photo, delivered digitally
Guided sunset viewing above the sea of clouds
Guided stargazing tour under the skies of Teide National Park
Food and drinks other than the welcome drink
Warm clothing and closed shoes
Teide cable car (teleférico) ticket and Teide Observatory visit — neither is part of this tour
Meeting Points
Departure
no hotel pick-up, no driver: you come in your own vehicle.
Your guide waits at the TF-38 roadside viewpoint car park look for the sign our company name on it.
After sunset you follow your guide's vehicle on to the stargazing site on the TF-21.
Return
Stargazing with a 20 Inch Telescope and Teide Sunset
About
Two separate experiences in one evening, at two different sites.
First the sunset: a viewpoint high above the cloud layer, a glass of sparkling wine, and the volcanic landscape turning from ochre to deep red as the light goes.
Then the sky takes over.
At a second observing site, accredited professional astronomers work a 500 mm Sky-Watcher Stargate GoTo telescope — a 20-inch mirror that gathers four times the light of a 250 mm instrument. A digital eyepiece adds what the eye cannot do: nebulae and galaxies appear in colour on screen, while you see the real object through the eyepiece itself.
Highlights
3 hours
Offered in English & Hungarian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
3 hours
Offered in English & Hungarian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Observation through a 500 mm (20-inch) Sky-Watcher Stargate GoTo telescope, with digital eyepiece
Welcome glass of sparkling wine (non-alcoholic option available on request)
Accredited professional astronomers
Souvenir photo, delivered digitally
Guided sunset viewing above the sea of clouds
Guided stargazing tour under the skies of Teide National Park
Food and drinks other than the welcome drink
Warm clothing and closed shoes
Teide cable car (teleférico) ticket and Teide Observatory visit — neither is part of this tour
Meeting Points
Departure
no hotel pick-up, no driver: you come in your own vehicle.
Your guide waits at the TF-38 roadside viewpoint car park look for the sign our company name on it.
After sunset you follow your guide's vehicle on to the stargazing site on the TF-21.
Return
Itinerary
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Teide National Park
Our guide meets you at a viewpoint on the TF-38, inside Teide National Park, at almost 2,000 metres above sea level. You are welcomed with a glass of sparkling wine and taken to the best spot for the view, where you watch the sun go down onto the sea of clouds that sits below the park. Your guide explains the volcanic landscape around you — the lava fields and mineral colours that shift from ochre to deep red in the last half hour of light. You reach the meeting point in your own car.
1 hour and 30 minutes
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Teide National Park
After sunset you follow the group in your own car to a second site on the TF-21, deeper inside the park. Accredited professional astronomers guide the observation through a 500 mm (20-inch) Sky-Watcher Stargate GoTo telescope: galaxies, globular clusters and nebulae, the cloud bands of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn. A digital eyepiece puts the same view on a screen, where deep-sky objects appear in colour.
