Silver River™ Stargazing is Lake Tekapo’s leading small group stargazing tour! Explore the stars with large telescopes, small groups & awesome guides allow us to wow you with full views of the southern night sky!
Are you ready to have your mind blown? Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Come and discover the wonders of the night sky on our 75 minute experience; including at least 60 mins under the stars with one of our epic guides. We use powerful 14” telescopes for awesome views of various deep space objects and special astro-lasers for easy naked-eye viewing of important stars and constellations.
At the end of your journey through our night sky, your guide will take a photo of your individual groups under the stars (Weather Dependent), capturing that picture-perfect moment. And our gift to you!Within 48 hours we will upload your photo onto our public Flickr website and then email you a link to download your digital copy of your photo so you can share with your family and friends, and of course on social media.
But wait, we’re not done. The perks of our tours keep on coming! We cap our tours at 10 people so our ratio of telescopes to guests is tin, one of the lowest in the Tekapo region. Meaning, everyone will have plenty of time on the telescopes and plenty of opportunities to ask our guide questions. Our stargazing locations are super dark, with some of the lowest light pollution in Tekapo. We’re pretty pumped to run our tours from within the gold rated Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, some of the darkest skies on the entire planet.
Our Stargazing Tour Includes:
All prices are shown in NZD ($)
Hi Yanjun Liu, thank you for taking the time to give Silver River Stargazing a review. We are very pleased you enjoyed your tour & we hope to see you again in the future! Kind Regards Lake Tekapo Farm Tours
Can't recommend this company enough! We had an awful thing happen to us that meant we needed to switch the time of our experience, they helped us without question and the tour itself was amazing, so insightful with an incredible guide. Thank you!
We went on a cloudless sky with no moon so the sky was incredible. We saw thousands of stars. Highly recommend.
Big thanks to the team for letting us come earlier than our scheduled session to improve our chances of seeing the stars! We drove up to the viewing site first, but it was too cloudy, so they had to cancel the tour. Luckily, they gave us a full refund with no fuss. We still decided to stay for a bit and managed to catch a few stars later on. Shoutout to Kieran for sharing so much interesting info—it made the experience even better! Great service and super accommodating team—would definitely recommend!
Hi Joli, Thanks so much for the kind words! it was a real pleasure to have you guys on the tour despite the weather and I'm so glad that you managed to see some stars in the end!
Amazing experience
Thank you for your 5-star review! We are glad you had a great experience with us and hope to see you next time! The Silver River Stargazing Team
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Yanjun Liu from China wrote on 23 January 2019
professional guide
很好,全是干货,尤其适合有一定天文知识储备的游客。中文向导助理帮我向不懂英文的妈妈解释的非常耐心周到,感谢。