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I'm reminded of it every time I go back, but it's still impressive to look up into the night sky way out in western Kentucky.
There's none of the East Coast's light pollution. Hell, if you turn off all the lights in the house there's only a single city-style street lamppost attached to the barn.
So when you look up you see the Milky Way. You really do see that white-out flow across the night sky.
We were looking up, both last night and tonight, to see Cygnus, the Northern Cross.
Apparently the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research was doing a stargazing study to analyze light pollution around the world. They chose one constellation in each hemisphere and asked stargazers to tell them what they saw.
Way out in the middle of nowhere Kentucky, it was beautiful.
There's none of the East Coast's light pollution. Hell, if you turn off all the lights in the house there's only a single city-style street lamppost attached to the barn.
So when you look up you see the Milky Way. You really do see that white-out flow across the night sky.
We were looking up, both last night and tonight, to see Cygnus, the Northern Cross.
Apparently the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research was doing a stargazing study to analyze light pollution around the world. They chose one constellation in each hemisphere and asked stargazers to tell them what they saw.
Way out in the middle of nowhere Kentucky, it was beautiful.
