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Victor_c3

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3. I grew up in a very rural area where the milky way is still visible

Reply to greyl (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 10, 2018, 09:59 AM

Dec 2018

Outside of Lake Placid, NY or about 5 hours north of NYC in the Adirondacks. At night, the milky way is still visible.

I don’t get the chance to visit more than once or twice a year, but the night sky is staggeringly beautiful compared to what you can see in most other parts of the country. Light pollution really has taken a lot from us, another way in which our technology is removing us and our connections to the rest of nature.

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Light pollution prevents too many modern people from seeing the night sky. greyl Dec 2018 #1

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I grew up in a very rural area where the milky way is still visible Victor_c3 Dec 2018 #3