That's a small but key happiness about living where I do, on an unlit street a few miles from town. I walk outside every night hoping to see stars. If it's super clear I might come back with camera or scope, but most often it's enough just to see them.
In the late '60s, Golden, Colorado [about 15 miles due West of Denver], I use to lie down on an area just off one of the main roads [Ford Ave] and would stare upward to a clear sky and be amazed at how many stars I could see --
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I was shocked after moving to DeSantistan (near Tampa) and I can usually see only two stars--maybe 3 at most on clear nights! I live in a semi-rural community inland from Tampa. It's astounding that we can't see stars.
I'm with u. My wife and I moved upstate, and they're is lil to no light pollution and it's great. However, if or when I point out a stellar solar system is in view. She mocks me and screams GAAAAAY!!! She truly is that galactic gamma ray on my testicles.
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From there the others twinkle out across the sky.
Sometimes the ISS goes across, our unfalling star.
There is a peaceful stillness there, even though everything is in motion.
without driving very far outside the city -- where it would have been even better to see more stars.
Today, that's pretty much impossible unless you drive at least 5 miles from any city lights and hope for a non-smoggy sky to view them.
It's a shame there is so much more light pollution.
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When the constellations
Revealed themselves
One star at a time
- Tragically Hip
I don't know what to say but am jealous of the very limited light pollution!