orogenicman Wrote:Where is "out there", and can I join you? Even 60 miles from Louisville, the night sky sucks.
The Texas panhandle has extremely clear skies. It's so sparsely populated that there's no light pollution. I could see the tail of Hale-Bopp comet with my naked eye when I was there. Never did see that spaceship, though.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell