pafret Loc: Northeast

"A Look to the Heavens"
“Under dark skies the setting of the Milky Way can be a dramatic sight. Stretching nearly parallel to the horizon, this rich, edge-on vista of our galaxy above the dusty Namibian desert stretches from bright, southern Centaurus (left) to Cepheus in the north (right).

From early August, the digitally stitched, panoramic night skyscape captures the Milky Way's congeries of stars and rivers of cosmic dust, along with colors of nebulae not readily seen with the eye. Mars, Saturn, and Antares, visible even in more luminous night skies, form the the bright celestial triangle just touching the trees below the galaxy's central bulge. Of course, our own galaxy is not the only galaxy in the scene. Two other major members of our local group, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, lie near the right edge of the frame, beyond the arc of the setting Milky Way.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160826.html

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

i went in 1987 on a vacation break to my aunts house for a week that was the 1st time i got to see the milky way i live in st.louis county the city lights are bright to see it ..it was so dark there i threw rock on the street & seen them spark never was to be able to do that here ..i think it sucks . oh well

pafret Loc: Northeast

Light pollution is a major problem, most of us can't see the splendors of the night sky. My best viewing times were in 1955-56 in New Mexico. When you got out into the desert at night, there was no cloud cover and no lights.
Currently, the lights from New York City and its suburbs, 65 miles south of here give, a sky glow that blanks out most viewing. This is why I find and post these pictures; most of us will never see these sights.

We have a lot of mariners on this site, I wonder what they saw in the middle of the ocean.,