We were disappointed with our experience at the Lowell Observatory. I think it would have been very cool if they had limited the number of people allowed to buy tickets and if it was organized better. We went on a Wednesday evening when there were over 700 people there. We pre-bought tickets online, so we didn’t have to wait nearly as long as the walk-ins, but our entire evening was still spent waiting in line. We were really looking forward to seeing Jupiter, but by the time we waited through the first 30-minute line, they had moved the telescope from Jupiter to something else, saying that Jupiter had already set (it was actually visible above the trees for another 30 minutes). All the telescopes are in the same small space, but instead of waiting in one line to get to them, each telescope had its own snaking, disorganized line, each with an over 20-minute wait time. We had hoped to ask some questions about what we were seeing through the telescopes, but sadly the workers were quite short with us and borderline rude, possibly just overwhelmed with the amount of people in such a small space. They had “star tours” that would have been cool, but they were held a few meters away from the telescope craziness, and the tour guide wasn’t mic’ed, so it was very difficult to hear her. My husband and I kept chuckling because she would tell a story about Greek/Roman mythology and how the star/constellation was named, and frequently follow it up with, “or something like that,” or “I’m not really sure about that,” or something similar. We waited in line for about 45 minutes to look through the Clark telescope (pictured), but we couldn’t really see much. They had it pointed at a star (m-80 I think?) & black hole 55 million light years away and told us it was very blurry, but I kinda wish they’d just pointed it at something more visible that we could enjoy seeing a more detailed view of. The man who was running that telescope kept fussing at people to get in a better line and not to come in the door so fast, but it was so disorganized (and dark, of course), it was hard to know where to go. It is very, very dark there since it’s a dark sky city, and a lot of the paths are uneven, so I wouldn’t recommend going to anyone with difficulty moving around in unknown spaces. Bring a red light flashlight if you have one.