[Credit and Copyright: Terry Hancock (Down Under Observatory)]
I was up in the Smoke Mountains area a few weeks ago. We were driving over some foothills at night and I pulled over because I heard this area was one of the better dark sky areas. I was able to see Orion’s Nebula with my astronomical binoculars. It was just a fuzzy patch but it was very exciting. The Pleiades were gorgeous through the binoculars. For someone who lived in the NE Corridor and out in the West Coast with light polluted skies seeing these objects and the some semblance of the Milky Way was very exciting.
If you look at that pic in full res, it’s vaguely pornographic..............