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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
Explorer II
Aug 23, 2015
DAS, we have found that on a really, really dark night, there is so much starlight that you can indeed see your feet, and you can see well enough to walk on a rocky forest road for quite a way without tripping.

Supposedly, there can be so much starlight that you can see your shadow, but I have never seen it that clear or dark.

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