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Visit the desert, well off any major highway and it will be very low light pollution. The Southwest has a lot of land like this.
by eindiran 5y ago
Visit the desert, well off any major highway and it will be very low light pollution. The Southwest has a lot of land like this.
- billti 5y agoAs a 20-something I spent some time in India when backpacking from England to Australia. One of my strongest memories was a safari we did out into the desert on camels, and just laying beneath the night sky. I never would have guessed at that age you can just literally watch satellites go by. I counted about a dozen "shooting stars" before I stopped counting (which is just objects burning up in the atmosphere on entry). The vividness of the clouds of stars was just breathtaking. Never seen anything close to it since.
- vram22 5y agoGreat story thanks for sharing. I am from India, and having heard your story, I may try that in the future. Which specific place did you do this in? Near some town or village in Rajasthan? AFAIK that's the only Indian state that has desert (the Thar desert), except for maybe bordering Gujarat state.