About Flagstaff Stargazing Adventures

Hi! My name is Evan Thibodeau, founder and owner of Flagstaff Stargazing Adventures. That's me on the right with my partner and one of our 2 dogs (that one is Sawyer). After a 3-year run studying business administration and marketing, I moved from southeastern Pennsylvania to Flagstaff in 2009 to pursue a degree in Forestry from Northern Arizona University.

 

After graduating from NAU in 2012, I began working for a non-profit conservation corps, where I remained for 5 years, gaining experience in the outdoors industry working on trails and leading invasive species mitigation and monitoring projects, and eventually working my way up to operations manager. In 2017, I decided to pursue a career in professional guiding, as I knew at this point I loved to be outside as much as possible, so why not spend my time helping get others outside in a safe and environmentally responsible manner? 

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At this point, I began working for a handful of guiding companies, working in unimaginably beautiful areas and national parks as far north as Banff National Park in Alberta, as far south as Saguaro National Park in Tucson, AZ, and almost everything in between. One of those "in-between" places was the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where I got to photograph a total solar eclipse. I had already been getting into astrophotography, but this was the moment I knew I wanted to teach others how to take these amazing, once-in-a-lifetime photographs and began to instruct beginner astrophotography workshops...which is the origin of Flagstaff Stargazing Adventures.

 

Now we offer a multitude of different stargazing and astrophotography experiences with a fleet of various types and sizes of telescopes and cameras to cater and curate a wide spectrum of experiences and offerings as a fully self-sufficient mobile star party service.