>"Out of curiosity, can someone give me an example?" I've lived my entire life in areas that show as white on this light pollution map [1]. I've certainly neve

>"Out of curiosity, can someone give me an example?" I've lived my entire life in areas that show as white on this light pollution map [1]. I've certainly never seen the Milky Way. In the city, you'd be lucky to make out any stars at all. Jupiter is visible when it's high in the sky, but that's about it. In the suburbs which are genreally red on the map you can make out the main sequence stars of bright constellations, but something like Andromeda (M31) needs the help of binoculars or a telescope. 1: http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/ http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/