I didn't realize how rare my dark skies were until a friend visited and saw the Milky Way for the first time and started crying. I am so furious that access to truly dark sky is dwindling because we're more committed to capital than preserving nature for everyone to enjoy.
I first and last saw it on a cruise. Truly beautiful
I haven't seen the milky way since I was a kid :( And every year I want to see the Persiod shower on my birthday, but can't bc of light pollution.
Ok yes! Completely agree! but also arguably it is better land stewardship to have humans accumulate in specific areas where they travel significantly less, and leave wild spaces wild.
Is what I miss about summers at my grandma's. She lived at 900 metres above sea level, no houses around her, and the night skies were spectacular. Good for astronomy nerd kid me.
i grew up going to bible camp out in the black hills and i remember it being so clear of light pollution that we could see satellites moving across the sky
It’s depressing, for sure.
I grew up in the mountains of NEPA and I thought I knew what the Wild Night Sky looked like. Then we visited my cousins on their farm in Iowa in 1993 and I found out how wrong I was.
Most of my students have only ever seen a few stars.
After 15 years as a city boy I went to paleo camp near Kemmerer, WY and was thoroughly blown away. The eeriest part to me is how you can't see faint stars if you look directly at them (the fovea is basically just cones and has bad low-light vision) so every time I looked at a new spot, it seemed
