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

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