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Location:Tenerife, Canary Islands
Company:Dark Skies Tenerife
Price:475€ (approx. £428) per person

Tenerife is a popular
holiday destination, with
approximately five million
tourists visiting it each
year. Tourism company
Dark Skies Tenerife offers
astronomy lovers the only
dedicated guest house
on the island. Within this
package are organised
stargazing exercises
and astronomy and astrophysics trips for beginners to the more
experienced observers of the night sky.
The week-long holiday starts with being picked up from Tenerife
southairporttoyouraccommodation(whichincludesexcellentmeals),
followed by tours of Tenerife Observatory along with exquisite sights
ofthenightskywithatop-classtelescope-inflatablestargazingpods
arealsoincluded!Attheendoftheweek,youwillbedrivenbackto
theairportforyourflighthome.

Aweek-long

astronomy holiday

Location: Norwegian coast

Company: Hurtigruten LTD

Price: From £1,610 (aprrox. $2,043) per person

For 12 days you can travel along the gorgeous coast of

Norway, chasing down the Northern Lights from Bergen

to Trondheim. The voyage will make stops at beautiful

Norwegian towns and truly beautiful landscapes along

the way, too.

Special lecturers in astronomy will educate you on the

Northern Lights, the Arctic sky and the Solar System.

There is also a visit to the Northern Lights Planetarium

in wonderful Tromsø in northern Norway. Flights and

transfers are not included in the package, but once

aboard the cruise, you can put your feet up and enjoy the

next 12 days.

The astronomy voyage

Location: Pic du Midi, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Company: Pic du Midi

Price: From 339€ (approx. £305) per person

The beautiful Pic du Midi at the Grand Site of the

Hautes-Pyrénées in France can take you above the clouds

with its 2,877-metre (9,439-feet) elevation. At the summit is

not only a wonderful landscape and view, but also the Pic du

Midi Observatory. The unparalleled experience can have

anyone marvelling at the sunset, as well as the stars above.

This observatory was completed in 1908 and has been

used to discover nine minor planets using its array of

telescopes. If you want to take a break indoors there is also a

museum showing the history of men between the Earth and

the stars.

A night at Pic du Midi

Above:

Pic du Midi is

the only dark-

sky reserve

in France

Right:

Norway is

an excellent

location to

watch the

Northern

Lights as it is

so close to the

Arctic Circle

Below:

Tenerife’s

tropical

conditions

allow for

minimal cloud

coverage and

better viewing

conditions © AJTFoto / Alamy Stock Photo ; Przemyslaw Ceglarek /

Alamy Stock Photo; Heath Holden / Getty ; Tamarak;

Mark Rickaby; Pascalou petit; Gunnar Hildonen' Loop Images / Getty

Astronomy holidays 2019