"Stephen" <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> 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?
>
> Years ago I was driving in the bush in Australia. Whan I stopped the car at
> night and looked up. I almost fell over backwards, the sky was so full of stars.
> They looked a solid mass compaired to metropolitan European skys.

my exact reaction too.  You look up and you feel like you're in orbit, not on
Earth anymore.  It's that stunning, at least for us city dwellers...

The sky is a blurry foggy mess in urban centers.  You gotta go to the fields to
enjoy it, specially on moonless nights.

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