It also scares people away when they look at your profile. They see my user name and how much I ramble to you, and then back away very very slowly. *high fives*
Where I am isn't all that dark either. I live in the 'burbs, where the neighbors leave spotlights on until two in the morning. That's why I stay up so late. I don't have all that much interest in the scientific aspects of the sky, stars, and planets. (I know some information, but not a lot. XD) But I will always enjoy just standing in the middle of a dark backyard at three in the morning, when there's only one street light, looking up, and just seeing stars. Not a lot, but enough.
It's better in winter, when there's more brighter stars. Winter's also the season of my favorite constellations and meteor showers. The Gemini meteor shower gave me a few good fireballs. Same with the random night when I was outside, facing south, and the northern sky was lit up with a fireball. It was so bright like a nuclear blast. XD That was in fall, though. And I'll shut up before rambling on about how I remember it was fall. *hides astronomical charts*
The last place that I went to where there wasn't any lights was Cape Cod. Of course, I was younger then, and wound up spending that weekend dead in bed from swimming in the ocean. So I don't really remember the skies there.
Unfortunately, where I'm moving to in a few years is much larger than the town I'm in now by at least 150,000 people. But the state it's in is also much larger than the one I'm in now, so maybe I can find someplace to head to when I want to see the stars.
We can only hope that something will change to see the stars. I hope so, but like you, I'm probably going to be very disappointed.
Where I am isn't all that dark either. I live in the 'burbs, where the neighbors leave spotlights on until two in the morning. That's why I stay up so late. I don't have all that much interest in the scientific aspects of the sky, stars, and planets. (I know some information, but not a lot. XD) But I will always enjoy just standing in the middle of a dark backyard at three in the morning, when there's only one street light, looking up, and just seeing stars. Not a lot, but enough.
It's better in winter, when there's more brighter stars. Winter's also the season of my favorite constellations and meteor showers. The Gemini meteor shower gave me a few good fireballs. Same with the random night when I was outside, facing south, and the northern sky was lit up with a fireball. It was so bright like a nuclear blast. XD That was in fall, though. And I'll shut up before rambling on about how I remember it was fall. *hides astronomical charts*
The last place that I went to where there wasn't any lights was Cape Cod. Of course, I was younger then, and wound up spending that weekend dead in bed from swimming in the ocean. So I don't really remember the skies there.
Unfortunately, where I'm moving to in a few years is much larger than the town I'm in now by at least 150,000 people. But the state it's in is also much larger than the one I'm in now, so maybe I can find someplace to head to when I want to see the stars.
We can only hope that something will change to see the stars. I hope so, but like you, I'm probably going to be very disappointed.