If You Can’t Name That Star, Try Asking Your Telescope

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I hope so. I'm still not sure how one of these $800 beauties is gonna get a clear digital picture of the sky from your driveway considering the amount of light pollution put up in the typical American suburb by shopping malls, parking lots and airports. You're lucky nowadays if you see any stars at all with the unaided eye.

So true torplexed. You may want to throw that at some of the astronomy mags, they'll love that pic.

The clearest skies I can remember seeing was on top of Upper wolfjaw mountain in the adrirondack park. It was midnight, we were 8 hours behind schedule, no food, no water, and 5 very mountainous miles to go. Oh and no flashlight, and no moon. We thought we were going to die, especially since it was mid october (those that know the park know how bad the weather can turn in that season, the 10th mountain div trains there), it was supposed to drop below freezing that night, and we had no cold weather gear on us, it was day hike and as I said, 8 hours behind. But the view from the summit was so awesome we stopped to take it in.