We are excited to share our view of the cosmos with you!
Call for a Starwalk Tour (385) 279-4460.
HOURS: HALO offers starwalk tours Monday-Saturday (Sundays by request). Our guides strive to share each season’s best astronomy targets create an enjoyable learning experience. Please call ahead for specific tour times and to make reservations (discounts available for hotel guests).
ADULTS | $20 plus tax
KIDS (12 and under) | $15 plus tax
Max Tour Capacity: 6 people (If your group is larger than 6, please make arrangements with our team).
Also check out the Ogden Valley Planet Tour, a 13-mile long scaled model of our solar system’s Sun and planets in their respective orbital distances. The artistic Sun model is onsite at Compass Rose Lodge. The inner-rocky planets up to Mars are within a couple blocks of the hotel. These displays are free to visit anytime. Town bikes to quickly visit planets are also available onsite at Detours.
All tours are weather dependent. Payments are processed when reservations are made. Due to limited-avialability, payments are transferrable, non-refundable.
Party On
For a hands-on experience, we host our nightly star tours with telescopes including an 11-inch Celestron Edge11 HD. This telescope provides clear and focused views of many astronomy targets including the Moon, planets, and deep-sky objects such are large nebulae and galaxies. It is our primary instrument for visual astronomy.
Under the Hood
The Observatory's 16-inch aperture Ritchey-Chretien style telescope is designed with hyperbolic shaped mirrors like the Hubble Space Telescope, which offer an exceptional view of objects avoiding image distortions introduced by many other amateur telescopes. The telescope is perched on a precision-built Paramount mount which provides a great degree of accuracy while tracking celestial objects. This telescope is equipped with imaging equipment and focuses on capturing astro-photography imagery. Note: This telescope is designed and used for astrophotography which we share with guests. It is not used for visual astronomy during tours.
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices."
- JAMES FERGUSON, 1757