Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> The part that really puzzles me as that even on the clearest, most
>> cloudless night, there are, like, maybe 3 stars visible in the entire
>> sky. And yet mankind has names for hundreds and hundreds of stars, many
>> of which are claimed to be "visible to the naked eye".
>>
>> I can only presume this must be due to light pollution.
> 
> Entirely. There are over a thousand stars visible to the naked eye.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked-eye_stars#Naked_eye_in_astronomy
> 
> There is nothing like spending a couple of hours on your back in a field with a
> truly dark sky - it feels like there are far more than mere thousands visible!
> 
> :o

But where do you have to go? Outer Mongolia?

(Also... where the hell *is* that anyway?!)

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