01 / 07Premium
₹14,999 per night
Luxury Tepee
Your own private world, under the stars.
- Sleeps
- 2 guests + 1 extra
- Air
- AC
- Washroom
- Private attached
Bhuvanagiri, Telangana
30 km from Hyderabad
Tonight · Moon, — lit
Sunset —
Glamp · Gaze · Glow
Where the city ends, the sky begins.
A dark-sky glamping retreat fifty minutes from Hyderabad. Stay the night, take your turn at the telescope, and fall asleep under thousands of stars.
01 · Leave the city
In Hyderabad, the sky shows you about two hundred stars.
Here, on a moonless night, you lose count.
Bortle 4 skies · On the Bortle scale, 1 is the darkest sky on Earth and 9 is a city centre
02 · Where you sleep
7 ways to sleep under it.
From a tepee with its own pond to a tent with nothing but canvas between you and the sky. Every stay includes dinner, breakfast and the telescope.
02 / 07Premium
₹11,999 per night
American Tent
Glamping done right.
- Sleeps
- 2 guests + 1 extra
- Air
- AC
- Washroom
- Private attached
03 / 07Premium
₹11,999 per night
Boho Suite
Hotel comfort. Stargazing experience.
- Sleeps
- 2 adults + 1 extra
- Air
- AC
- Washroom
- Private attached
04 / 07Group & mid-range
₹3,499 per person
Hut Tent
Simple comfort. Shared memories.
- Sleeps
- 2 / 3 / 5 sharing
- Air
- Fan
- Washroom
- Shared
05 / 07Group & mid-range
₹2,999 per person
Dormitory
Stay together. Experience together.
- Sleeps
- 8–10 guests
- Air
- AC
- Washroom
- Private attached
06 / 07Premium
₹20,000 per night
Farmhouse
Private farmhouse nights for big groups.
- Sleeps
- 8+ guests
- Air
- AC
- Washroom
- Private attached
07 / 07Budget
₹2,299 per person
Camping
Raw. Real. Closest to the sky.
- Sleeps
- 1 / 2 / 4 sharing
- Air
- Open air
- Washroom
- Shared
03 · The telescope
Your turn at the eyepiece.
90 mm refractor · 900 mm focal length · up to 180×
Pick a target, then use Rotate Left/Right. Drag still works, but you do not need it.
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- Distance
- 384,400 km
- Magnified
- 36×
- Phase
- —, — lit
The view that makes everyone gasp first: craters and mountains along the line between day and night.
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- Distance
- ≈ 1.3 billion km
- Magnified
- 100×
- Ring tilt today
- 7.0°
Small, sharp and unmistakably ringed. Right now the rings are tilted only 7.0° towards us, a thin bright line; they open wider every year until about 2032.
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- Distance
- ≈ 630 million km
- Magnified
- 100×
- Best
- Around opposition, 11 Feb 2027
Cloud belts across a cream disc, and four moons in a line: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. They shift every night.
Check in 3:00 PM · Check out 10:30 AM
One night, hour by hour.
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3:00 PM
Arrive & settle in
Check in, find your stay and explore the open property.
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4:00 PM
Games & workshops
Outdoor games, or an art and pottery workshop (add-on).
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6:15 PM
Sunset walk
Watch the sky turn gold, then violet, over the fields.
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8:30 PM
Dinner under open skies
Dome dining or open-air tables. Snacks, dinner and breakfast are included.
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9:00 PM
Guided stargazing
Bhanu Prakash shows you how to find your way around the sky.
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9:45 PM
Telescope time
Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s moons and the Moon’s craters, seen with your own eyes.
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11:30 PM
Bonfire
Stories, music and woodsmoke: the warm heart of every Novae night.
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6:00 AM
Sunrise & the Sun up close
A sunrise walk and a filtered look at the Sun through the telescope.
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8:00 AM
Breakfast
A full breakfast, and one more look at the sky in daylight.
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10:30 AM
Check out
Head home rested, with a camera roll you’ll keep showing people.
- Everything you can do here
05 · Who it’s for
Who comes to Novae.
Every night is planned around the people who came. Tell us who’s coming and we’ll shape it.
- 01Families Open lawns for the kids, a telescope for every age, a bonfire to end on.
- 02Couples A tepee with its own pond, and the Milky Way all to yourselves.
- 03Schools Astronomy, water rockets and the paddy fields, fully supervised.
- 04Teams No meeting room has ever bonded a team the way the night sky does.
- 05Celebrations Birthdays, proposals and anniversaries under the open sky.
- 06Astronomers Bortle 4 skies, no lights-out, and a guide who stays up as late as you do.
06 · Novae AstroClub · free to join
Look up, together.
A free club for everyone who caught the bug here. Members are invited to club-only nights at the new moon, when the sky is at its darkest.
Next in the sky over Novae
Orionids meteor shower
21 Oct 2026
00days: 00hrs: 00min: 00sec
Also from Halley’s Comet. Best after midnight. Up to about 20 meteors an hour under ideal skies; the Moon is 78% lit (moonlit viewing).
Guest stories
1 / 5
“I genuinely did not expect to cry looking at stars. But watching the Milky Way stretch across the entire sky — my family stood in silence for almost 10 minutes. Nobody wanted to speak.”