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What do the stars look like where you live? Can you see the Milky Way? If so, how clearly?

*sigh* I'm dying to stargaze in a good location (impossible to do in Orlando). I'm someone who's been in love with space for longer than she can remember, yet I've only seen the Milky Way once, and that was when I was 9. I did enjoy it and appreciate it, but I wasn't old enough to truly appreciate it like I would now. And the sky's the best during the Winter, and Winter break is the only time I have to really go to places... Winter break just started. I'm really wondering just where I could go... even if it's for a couple of days...

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ozgirl256

I was once in Alice Springs and of a night out is just gob smacking... It truly is a sea of stars that girdle the heavens ... Get he to the country girl, take a tripod and a camera with a B setting (bulb) for exposure

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

I was in Alice Springs once, but that was after a really bad experience in the middle of the Outback, and all of us were too tired to pay attention to the stars. Well, wait. I do have a memory of me looking out at the stars and watching the sky. Maybe if I had gotten down and my eyes adjusted, I'd have seen the Milky Way.

Far as the photography, I've been doing exactly that minus the country part. Except my brother lost the damned CF card before I could transfer it, so many space pictures are now lost.

ozgirl256

I don't have a brother but I believe they are like that :)