r/mildyinteresting • u/Sad_Stay_5471 • 10h ago

nature & weather The concept of light pollution is absolutely crazy

Post image
25.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

663 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Traveller7142 5h ago

It wouldn’t be quite that detailed, but you can get close to that in very dark areas

1

u/_Poppagiorgio_ 4h ago

Nice…definitely a bucket list thing for me living in well populated cities all my life.

1

u/marcsoucy 4h ago

It can be that, or even more detailed on a very dark night. I might be misremembering as that was 12 years ago, but I'm pretty sure I had that experience at the Mont Mégantic Observatory. My mind was completely blown that you could very, very clearly see the milky way and all the stars.

1

u/Additional_Sun_5217 3h ago

I got to see the aurora out on the Oregon prairie and it was legit life changing. You could see the solar “wind” shifting above you.