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LenSatic
Explorer
Dec 02, 2014

Naked-eye astronomy is more than just meteors.

For you meteor hunters out there in the boonies, there is other visible stuff buzzing around up there: satellites. The easiest to see is the International Space Station. It’s extremely bright and, w...
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profdant139
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Jan 22, 2015
It's too depressing to go to Griffith Park to see the stars -- it requires a long struggle across the entire LA basin, and then when you get there, there are hordes of people and not enough parking, and then the sky is so light-polluted that you can't even see Polaris.

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