Who has naked eye Milky Way?

[Earl]

Curious how this pans out accros the members.

[shaunster]

Naked eye milky way? I am lucky to get naked eye stars some nights

[John]

On good nights I can clearly see the milky way and the dark rifts in it from my back garden in North Somerset with the naked eye. Under the same conditions M31 is just visible to the naked eye as an elongated misty patch.

With Bristol and Cardiff / Newport either side of me the seeing quickly deteriorates as I get much below 45 degrees altitude though.

[Vicky]

Just about from the garden. It looks like a linear haze and bigger than I expected- wider.

[hemihaggis]

hi there , i can see the milky way from my back garden , like a fuzzy haze with some more vivid stars in the midst of the hazy light , but i have spent many nights in the highlands , climbing and hillwalking ,camping ,bivvying and staying in bothys in remote areas , ben alder bothy being a memorable night last august ,no moon just a carpet of stars in the heavens , and the milky way a ribbon of magic light , or camping on the princes beach in eriskay in the westen isles , in june , i think you would be hard pressed to find a better place to see the milky way .

[JamesF]

On nights with "average" seeing I can pick out the milky way fairly easily. On good nights it's very clear down to about fifteen degrees above the horizon in either direction, I'd say.

James

[roundycat]

on a clear night!, M31 and MW easy.

Dennis

[pete_l]

When Vega is close to directly above as it is now I can just about make out the Mg 4.3 stars around it. Under those conditions There is just a wisp of the Milky Way through Cygnus which is also near the zenith.

Any lower and the light pollution masks any hint of the MW.

If I'm incredibly lucky, the sky (later in the night or later in the year, when it's overhead) I can just about discern the two guide stars to M31 but the galaxy itself is just too faint.

Typically my Sky Quality Meter reads 19.8 at the zenith, but that's not dark enough to see Andromeda naked-eye. Even though that SQM reading translates to about a VLM of 5.3, in practice those calculations just don't match my eyes

[bigglesdad]

Never seen it from my back garden.

[MikeWilson]

Vega, Deneb, Sirus, if I'm lucky, Ursa Major's plough....

Very little else unless I use a camera and filters

[martin_h]

Milky Way - No Way!

[Hypernova]

Just about from my garden in Crewe, I can make it out as a hazy band across the sky on a dark and clear night. I can also just manage M31 naked eye in similar conditions.

[Peter Drew]

Fairly obvious on a good night plus M31 and M44 easily, on the best nights, add M13 and M33. Try Kelling on a good night in Autumn to add to this list.

[Robthevegetable]

Just about from my garden in Crewe, I can make it out as a hazy band across the sky on a dark and clear night. I can also just manage M31 naked eye in similar conditions.

I only live in Congleton and I don't recall ever seeing it... Although now I know there's the possibility I'll be concentrating a lot more!

[Multi-Coated]

Not that long ago I had a good view of MW on a good clear night but now with some additional local lighting it's a bit of a sore point. Sometimes I think I can make something out but Its probably wishful thinking.

[brantuk]

Iffy here - on a clear night it's visible from the footie pitch 100yds up the road - but from the back/front yard forget it lol

[todd8137]

i have great views of the garden with the mk1 eyeball just a 25 min walk from the house is even better

[Luke]

Not as good as at star parties but can see it sometimes, maybe it's easier to spot it having seen it more clearly in dark skies.

[RikM]

On a good night with no moon the MW is faintly visible from my garden, and the darker rift through Cygnus. As posted above, it's bigger / wider than I imagine it. I spent a wonderful hour last week lying on the trampoline just staring up at it. I started out with the bins, but it was such a good night that I 'upgraded' to eyeballs

[hunterknox]

One of my favourite astronomical moments was when I was moving house last winter. I was ferrying some stuff over to my current house on a clear night, tired as hell. Stepped out of the car, just about mustered myself to lift some boxes, looked up and there was the Milky Way, straight off the bat.

I consider myself to be very lucky indeed to have the skies that I do, even thought objectively they're not a patch on somewhere like Galloway, however on reflection there's no reason why everyone shouldn't be able to enjoy our night skies to their full extent with proper planning and lighting design.

[tom33pr]

Whenever it gets properly 'dark' (summer) I can actually see it from my backyard

A nice band across Cygnus, Aquila and Scutum - a lovely view!

[JB80]

Not since moving to Belgium, In Oz all the time unless I was actually in Adelaide then it was iffy.

[Sam]

horizon to horizon - even without my glasses on.

[Manok101]

I can kind of see it where I'm at. But I have at least seen it, more as a banded cloud than a great glowing band.

[Backscatter]

The MW is reasonably visible from about 35-40+/- degrees in both directions in my back yard. Many constellations are also visible and the entire Little Dipper can be viewed with some effort and after some adjustment from being inside. I can usually get the 4 brightest stars right off, but the last 3 take a little time for the eyes to get adjusted, especially the last one in the cup of the dipper itself (SAO 8470).