Private Group Sky Tour at Pine Mountain Observatory (up to 15 people)
About this item
Invite your friends and family to go see the breathtaking beauty of the Milky Way. Pine Mountain Observatory, located 34 miles southeast of Bend, is perched atop a mountain at an elevation of 6,300 feet. The observatory’s location is well placed to make the most of the dark skies that the Eastern Oregon high desert provides.
Your group will be guided through a private tour, see a laser-guided display of the constellations, and see the night sky through the observatory's telescopes.
Tour to be redeemed for use during Summer 2022.
Hello all, this is Dr. Scott Fisher writing, I am the Director of Pine Mountain Observatory. Given the great response and bids to the auction, I want to sweeten the pot!
I will personally lead this tour along with the PMO Head of Operations Alton Luken. For this tour we will invite you and your group to arrive at PMO in the late afternoon so we can start off with a grand tour of the facility during the day. We will then head to the summit of Pine Mountain to watch the Sun set over the Cascades. After sunset we will have time to sit with a beverage and chat about the observatory and the programs and research we do there. Once it starts to get dark we will open up three of the PMO telescopes for the group for eyeball observing with our largest telescopes as well as taking astro-images with our new robotic telescope. We will also have an opportunity to have a laser guided sky tour as we sit underneath the dark central Oregon skies.
Throughout the evening you will have full access to myself and Alton as your personal sky tour guides!
We are very excited to partner with Central Oregon LandWatch on this project and we are so very proud of the interest you are showing through your generous bids.
Thank you! We are already looking forward to having you visit PMO!
-S. Fisher
Value: Priceless
Bidding
| Bidder | Time | Bid |
|---|---|---|
| NewSun Energy | 3:48pm 25 Oct 2021 | $360 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 2:09pm 24 Oct 2021 | $350 |
| mary.fay7 | 2:09pm 24 Oct 2021 | $340 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 8:41am 22 Oct 2021 | $320 |
| mary.fay7 | 8:02pm 21 Oct 2021 | $310 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 2:11pm 20 Oct 2021 | $300 |
| annecgordon11 | 2:11pm 20 Oct 2021 | $300 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 2:10pm 20 Oct 2021 | $280 |
| annecgordon11 | 2:10pm 20 Oct 2021 | $270 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 2:04pm 20 Oct 2021 | $260 |
| mary.fay7 | 11:47am 20 Oct 2021 | $250 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 11:45am 20 Oct 2021 | $200 |
| mary.fay7 | 11:45am 20 Oct 2021 | $190 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 9:42am 20 Oct 2021 | $170 |
| mary.fay7 | 5:48pm 19 Oct 2021 | $160 |
| tno smoothly | 10:26am 19 Oct 2021 | $140 |
| mary.fay7 | 7:09pm 18 Oct 2021 | $130 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 7:09pm 18 Oct 2021 | $120 |
| Barbara Awbrey | 3:22pm 18 Oct 2021 | $110 |
| mary.fay7 | 2:30pm 18 Oct 2021 | $100 |