Hire me for a private stargazing event anywhere in the western US.
Today, Monday July 7th, is my 50th straight day on the road.
After camping at Moonscape Overlook on June 26th into the 27th, I made the six-hour drive from Hanksville to Sedona on what I now deem the coolest highway in the country, crossing canyons and lakebeds and rock formations like you wouldn’t believe, all the way through Monument Valley, over to Tuba City, and finally, the last stretch of road down 89A to Sedona.
It was one heck of an awesome drive.
That same evening, I checked into my first hotel, dropped what I didn’t need, and raced across town to set up sidewalk astronomy. Minus three nights where clouds and a bit of rain blocked out the sky, I hosted sidewalk astronomy every evening, meeting hundreds of people from around the country. In the first half of the week, I met many people who had actually just come down from the Star Parties at the Grand Canyon, so astronomy was on people’s minds.
In the final days before the Moon rises too late for sidewalk astronomy (and no other major objects or planets suitable for general viewing in the sky yet), I prepared and opened up my private and group events, and immediately got three separate groups in two events, which we hosted across four hours Sunday night from 10pm to 2am!
As always, I love seeing how private events truly bring out the conversations and questions and awe and wonder in people as you tour them around the cosmos, seeing galaxies and star clusters, important stars, nebula, and “mapping” the night sky.
I like to say, “People’s reactions give me life.” I do what I do because so many people have never looked through a telescope before, or had someone to ask questions that have always been on their mind, or had the cosmos opened up to them in new ways.
The purpose is to bring communities together. To get strangers talking, sharing the excitement with other people around them. To be, and feel, less isolated from each other. To show that the night sky belongs to all of us. To get people looking up, and thinking.
Discovery is the purest form of the human experience.
This world is beautiful.
Alex
I’ll be in the Phoenix area from July 10th through July 25th. If you’re in the area and would like a private event, use my contact page.
Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, or YouTube
Purchase my photography prints
Support my mission, travel, and outreach with a tip on Venmo or PayPal.
Leave a Reply