点评:Ok so this ended up being better than i expected all considered. We visited (family of 4) during monsoon season when it is often overcast. We booked a night and a backup night (backup nights are only $1, in case of weather). Several hours before the original date, they messaged saying the weather was not good and to move to the backup night. They sent this message early enough for us to still plan our evening around something new. The backup night was partly cloudy, but wow did they know how to roll with the punches. The dark rangers have a bunch of telescopes set up looking at amazing things (supernova, binary stars, star clusters, planets, the moon (if visible)). The best part - as clouds came in and obscured various objects, they rangers would quickly change the targets to ones that could peak through the clouds. They did this constantly, it was amazing. I was really worried about what they were going to do and they didn't skip a beat trying to make the best of every single hole in the clouds scattered across the sky. They do their best to recover any part of the experience they can. At the end, around 12:15 AM, our family was the last ones there and they NEVER made us feel weird about it - if anything, the were excited and ecouraging any/all experiences they could. it was WONDERFUL. We did eventually get to see the milky way stretch across the sky (clouds had moved on for about 30 minutes and the moon had gone completely down) and the night full of stars. my son was yelling that it was one of the best nights of his life. OH, and they have lots of containers of hot chocolate, coffee, tee/water, to help you stay warm and awake (my kids hat like 5 cups of hot chocolate). I STRONGLY recomend!
翻译:好吧,综合来看,这次体验比我预想的还要好。我们一家四口是在雨季去的,那时天气常常阴沉沉的。我们预订了一个夜晚的行程,还额外订了一个备用夜晚(备用夜晚只需1美元,以防天气不佳)。在原定日期到来前几小时,他们发消息说天气不好,建议我们改到备用夜晚。消息发送得足够早,让我们还能重新安排当晚的计划。结果备用夜晚时天气多云,但还算不错。不过,天哪,他们真是知道如何应对突发状况啊。那些暗夜巡护员们架设了一堆望远镜,用来观测各种奇妙的天体——超新星、双星系统、星团、行星,还有月亮(如果能被看到的话)。最精彩的是:每当云层出现并遮住了某些天体时,他们就会迅速把观测目标换成那些能透过云层看到的天体。他们一直如此操作,真是令人惊叹。我原本非常担心他们会怎么做,但他们迅速行动起来,尽力利用天空中散布的每一处云隙来拍摄。他们竭尽全力去捕捉下能捕捉到的画面。最后,在凌晨12点15分左右,我们一家人是最后离开的,而他们从未让我们觉得尴尬或不自在——相反,他们还满怀热情,鼓励我们去体验一切能体验的内容。这一切简直太棒了。我们最终得以看到银河横跨天际(云层散去约30分钟后,月亮也完全隐没),夜空中繁星点点。我儿子大喊着,说这是他一生中最棒的夜晚之一。哦,他们还准备了大量热巧克力、咖啡、茶和水,帮助游客保持温暖和清醒(我的孩子们大概喝了5杯热巧克力呢)。我极力推荐这里!