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I saw the best Milky Way of my life while driving from Las Vegas to Phoenix on a summer night. My friend’s car had a sunroof, but I had my eyes on the road so I
by ziofill 1y ago
I saw the best Milky Way of my life while driving from Las Vegas to Phoenix on a summer night. My friend’s car had a sunroof, but I had my eyes on the road so I hadn’t noticed. At some point the guy sitting at the back points up and goes “is that the Milky Way??” And my friend who was on the passenger seat goes “you know the sunroof is tinted right?” It was SO BRIGHT! We stopped the car, went out and stayed there a good half hour just staring up, one of the best memories of my first trip to the US.
- selfmodruntime 1y agoStars are actually really really bright. We just forget since we block our view with smog and lights.
- typeofhuman 1y agoI can only imagine what the night sky looked like before electricity. Maybe I'll have to go to Antarctica.
- grakasja 1y agoThere are a few websites that suggest or map areas where you can get a good view e.g. https://www.darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness https://www.darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness Lots of good spots in the Western US if you're up for a long drive
- markus_zhang 1y agoYou can use the black map to find spots. Most likely there is one close to our city, "close" defined as within 2-3 hours of driving.
- testing22321 1y agoGo to outback Australia, or remote South America or Southern Africa. Due to the tilt of the earth the southern hemisphere gets better stars. It will blow your mind. I’d been out of Australia for a decade, living in the Yukon, having all kinds of remote adventures. On my first night back in Australia in the middle of a city of 50k people I took photos because the Milky Way was staggering. 10x what I had seen in the decade prior. This is a single exposure, very much what it looked like in real life https://www.instagram.com/p/CersLuLBfCz/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CersLuLBfCz/