On 09/20/2012 11:59 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 20/09/2012 04:44 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>> Also: In what part of the world are stars actually visible to the naked
>>> eye at night?
>>
>> What an odd question. Even in the most lit and polluted cities you can
>> see
>> at least some stars.
>
> Sure. Two or three isolated points of light. But that's not what these
> photographs show at all.
>
>> I'm assuming you meant to ask "in what part of the world is the milky way
>> visible to the naked eye at night?"
>
> I always assumed that "the milky way" was something you could only see
> with a space-based telescope. Certainly I've never seen anything vaguely
> approximating the astonishing images shown here. (Then again, some of
> them probably have a 3-minute exposure or something insane like that,
> which the human eye can't do.)

I remember my ex-brother-in-law trying to argue that it was just high 
clouds ... give me a break (he'd argue white was black if it suited him) 
... I've seen the milky way naked eye MANY times

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