Amazing sky

[milkyjoe]

Just been outside to look at the night sky in the lake district... WOW!

Never seen so many stars :-D

[christhebrit]

Lucky, I've been seeing clouds for weeks now.

This is rediculous...

[cotterless45]

There have been good gaps here, just ignore the forecasts !

Nick.

[Paul73]

Just been outside to look at the night sky in the lake district... WOW!

Never seen so many stars :-D

There is something magical about a really dark sky.

I wonder if the Cumbrian residents get the same "Wow" feeling when they look up? Or, is that feeling a special thing that only us LP dwellers get?

Paul

[NotSoSuperNova]

There is something magical about a really dark sky.

I wonder if the Cumbrian residents get the same "Wow" feeling when they look up? Or, is that feeling a special thing that only us LP dwellers get?

Paul

I can only imagine they all come down here and mention to fellow Cumbrian's about our amazing cloud formations  

[Merlin]

I was born in 1942, the year of Stalingrad. As far as light pollution goes, sky conditions started to go down the pan in the mid-1960s, as road and street lighting got brighter.

Nowadays' of course, we have millions of infernal insecurity lights turned on nightly. How I remember lying back on the grass in the old days, staring up at a blazing starry sky, and that was in the town! It was possible to see Uranus with the unaided eye from the town centre... .

[Paul73]

I'm never quite sure if it is the LP or my eyes that are getting worse.

At least my memory is getting better. Sometimes, a day or two after a good scope session, I remember more detail than I actually saw at the time. Odd, phenomenon....

Paul

[bond19]

I have a pal who is used to a dark sky, but has been living in Manchester for a year to so. She came to visit recently. I'm semi-ruaral (can see faint milky way and Andromeda barley) but she was blow away and forgot how beautiful a starry sky is. I'm only an hour from Lake District so must take my scope up there when skies permit.