Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

RetiredToker76

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Well if your skies are clear View attachment 5214516

Went to a music festival with a friend several years ago, around 2am he stopped me dead in my tracks and said, "Whoa, look up." I did and said, "Uh what?"

Turns out he'd never seen the Milky Way before, having living his whole life in the city. I had to stop and look because it'd been almost 20 years for me too. Haven't seen it since.
 

DarkWeb

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Went to a music festival with a friend several years ago, around 2am he stopped me dead in my tracks and said, "Whoa, look up." I did and said, "Uh what?"

Turns out he'd never seen the Milky Way before, having living his whole life in the city. I had to stop and look because it'd been almost 20 years for me too. Haven't seen it since.
It really is amazing seeing it with no light pollution.
 

RetiredToker76

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It really is amazing seeing it with no light pollution.
I've lived in two major cities and the rest the time in a mostly rural community. My town as a kid had a population of 1200~ people. My high school class was in the low hundreds, I think about 300 kids in my graduating class in total. After college I moved to increasingly more urban areas with a lot more light pollution.

I used to go out camping on a friends farm on new moon nights, and the only light at all was that coming from the stars and one really old farm light about a mile and a half away. Then nothing for almost 20 miles in any direction. Did all the photography for my astronomy class out there, it was amazing. One of the things I miss about living in a more rural area.
 
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