Oct 23, 2024
idk at some point I think we need to stop lying to city people about what a no light pollution night sky looks like bc some of the saturation boosted long exposures folk are using as proof of what the nebulous they have taken from you are getting silly.
like this is a photo from the McDonald observatory obviously, but this is like. almost what you would actually be seeing under decent but not exceptional circumstances (ie sea level with low moisture/dust in the air, and no time spent intentionally avoiding light before hand)
#im sorry... but unless you're seeing the Auras. Its mostly just black with some dots. Sometimes you can see the milky way#but its not like. a bright streak of color. its just a slightly denser area of dots#source: im from bum fuck nowhere and lived in a town that regularly went total dark for days#as pristine and un light polluted as you can get and unless it was a new moon its not that like#special.#i had to edit a pic i got off google bc i have been to the mcd observatory and those fucking red lights are so dim irl#that i had to hold my mothers hand to not eat shit and die on the hike out bc i could see jack nothin by them#the sky is about right tho
