[dr_lew]

I am nonplussed. These kinds of pictures are very nice, as pictures, but one would hope that the inspiration would be, “Stop looking at this picture and go outside and look at the sky!” ... because that is IT, man.

[uncle fenders]

I hope this doesn’t sound stupid, but can you actually see the stars that clearly with the naked eye in an area with no light pollution, and little air pollution?

or is that mainly magnified by the camera?

You can’t see anything near that here in the midwest...