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Don't get to see a ton of stars living in a highly populated area. Just see the brightest ones but I can drive 20min to the hills to check them out anytime.
 
I like stargazing, especially taking photos of the night sky. The camera doesn't need any time to adjust to the dark and it picks up a lot more detail. Hopefully there will be a telescope in my near future.
 
Red Squirrel said:
It is indeed incredible just how many there are, and if you have a telescope what you thought was 2 visible stars next to each other, there are 100's more in between. (from our point of view) and it just keeps going. The universe it's so vast beyond imagination. Crazy to think some people even consider the fact it just spurted out of no where for no reason.
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And just think - every single star you see is within our own galaxy. You can't resolve individual stars in other galaxies with your own eyes.
 
I've never seen a planet, it would be damn cool though.

The light pollution here isn't even that bad if you get away from the densely inhabited areas. The closest other dark place is Tuscany. It's still not as dark as some remote places, I heard that scotland is good for that. Probably other northern areas too.
 
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Mixolydian said:
you look up into the sky on a clear, cold night. see so many stars. so beautiful, so bright, yet so far away.
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That's what I did yesterday. On the way home from shopping, a fancy hit me, and I drove up into the mountains. In a clearing, I could see the lights of civilization below, and the cold, unblinking stars above.

The dusk hours are also fun to look for man-made satellites.
Sometimes you get to see ISS being lit up, and racing through the sky, or other low-orbit vehicles.
 
That is one thing i love about living in the country. it gets so dark out here the stars are bright and nice to look at.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
And just think - every single star you see is within our own galaxy. You can't resolve individual stars in other galaxies with your own eyes.
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Except, a couple of those dots up there are galaxies (Andromeda galaxy & Omega Centauri are visible to the naked eye. And, the two magellanic clouds are visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere. I think there's a handful of others that are also visible from very dark locations; or at least, no one's ever pointed out another one to me.
 
Red Squirrel said:
It is indeed incredible just how many there are, and if you have a telescope what you thought was 2 visible stars next to each other, there are 100's more in between. (from our point of view) and it just keeps going. The universe it's so vast beyond imagination. Crazy to think some people even consider the fact it just spurted out of no where for no reason.
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Even more amazing? All the stars you can see in the sky are just in our own galaxy...

And there are just as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the night sky..
 
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