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The second one took my breath away in HD, just shows how much beauty we miss when living in cities with all the light pollution.
You do know that the sky doesn't actually look like that there and you get the same sky by popping 5 miles outside any city
In your backwards arse country, perhaps. But our cities aren't tiny and massively affect light in the surrounding areas, much more so than in the land of nothing and moomins.
Moron, moomin are from sweden
And the point stands; make an effort to take a trip and you'll see plenty of stars.
No you won't...
I've never seen the night sky with as many stars in the UK as I have in the night sky in South Africa...Even in the middle of nowhere in Devon where you need a torch to get to the car you don't get the same number of stars...
There is too much light pollution.
Well we dont breed like gob eating chavs and scousers.. Thats why we dont have far to go to see a bright stary night sky.In your backwards arse country, perhaps. But our cities aren't tiny and massively affect light in the surrounding areas, much more so than in the land of nothing and moomins.
Forgot to add the :wub:Well we dont breed like gob eating chavs and scousers.. Thats why we dont have far to go to see a bright stary night sky.
Moron, moomin are from sweden
And the point stands; make an effort to take a trip and you'll see plenty of stars.
The Moomins (Swedish: Mumintroll, Finnish: Muumi) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts[2] in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses. The carefree and adventurous family live in their house in Moominvalley, in the forests of Finland
They live in Finland. Know your own country before stating baseless 'facts' about ours.
it's basically Wales/ remote Scotland if you want any chance of seeing anything decent like that in the UK
I must disagree with you for two reasons.dysfunction said:No you won't...
I've never seen the night sky with as many stars in the UK as I have in the night sky in South Africa...Even in the middle of nowhere in Devon where you need a torch to get to the car you don't get the same number of stars...
There is too much light pollution.
You just don't get it at all do you. The lights here are so dense and powerful that even 20 miles away from lights in a city the sky is blighted.
I can honestly think of only one occasion in the northern hemisphere when I've had clear skies and proper zero light pollution, and that was in the desert in Jordan. In the southern hemisphere I've witnessed it in a few places, Fraser Island in Australia was the most memorable, so much that I stayed out all night watching the sky.
I'm sure there are places in the UK where you could get a proper view, but I reckon they're pretty few and far between and I just don't think I've been to any of them at night.
What can I see?
With over 7000 visible stars to look at you are spoilt for choice. The Milky Way is clearly visible with the naked eye as are near objects. With observing instruments there is no limit other than the instrument itself.