<story><title>I&apos;ve overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&amp;#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>An added bonus of a dark sky is that with a good pair of eyes (and more democratically, with a set of binoculars) you can see all sort of clusters, nebulae, Jupiter&amp;#x27;s moons and e.g., Andromeda.&lt;p&gt;While not as breathtaking as the panoramic view of a truly dark sky, experiencing this &amp;quot;micro-structure&amp;quot; is also a mind-expanding experience: The sky is no longer a set of random point sources. Its an organic &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot; enclosing other &amp;quot;things&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;ve overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&amp;#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>louthy</author><text>My best experience of this was at Mt. Everest base-camp (Tibet side) at 5,364 metres (17,598  ft)&lt;p&gt;Not just no light pollution, but much less atmosphere too! It looked like those long exposure images of the Milky Way. There aren&amp;#x27;t words available to describe how incredible it was.  I’ll just state that it was one of the highlights of my life!</text></comment>