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Does anyone live in an area that has breathtaking views of the night sky? Able to see satellites? Do you sit outside each evening to marvel at how beautiful it

• defrost 3y ago
  I'm in the Murchison quiet zone in Western Australia. [1] There's zero (0 , !!ZERO!!) ambient manmade light at night *, ourselves and our few neighbours have no outside lights, there is no city light popping up over the horizon, and there is very little radio frequency noise. > Able to see satellites? * Way too many - the freaking low orbit Starlink constellations smear trails across the sky as they reflect sunlight over the horizon back here onto the ground at night. There are moves being made to make them less reflective and to have ALL satellites turn off transmissions when passing overhead here .. but that's still largely an agreement in principle and still needs full implementation. > Do you sit outside each evening to marvel at how beautiful it is All the time, it's a past time that locally goes back several tens of thousand of years. Growing up I was in a town further north but equally isolated, we watched movies at night on a big outdoor screen and often could see meteor showers up behind (say) Midnight Express and other movies. [1] https://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/ARQZWA.html https://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/ARQZWA.html