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Old 11-July-2004, 01:40 PM
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Default Re: Beautiful Night Sky

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Originally Posted by Maksutov
Out here in the boonies the night sky can get really dark. The main stars of Sagittarius all looked like first magnitude (compared I guess to a memory of what they looked like when I lived close to urban areas). The Milky Way looked like a bright cloud formation stretching across the sky,....
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Just kidding, of course. When I went out at 1 a.m. for our nightly (manual) weather observation, I could barely see the brightest stars of Sagittarius and the Big Dipper. Vega was fairly bright overhead, though, and Arcturus was visible to the west. Stupid light pollution. :x

At least the sky is a lot darker at home, but it's still hard to see the Milky Way, even there.
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