i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.
my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is
#oh my good lord i didn't know most places were so light polluted#australia's light pollution map is pretty similar to africa's#i used to live somewhere that was a bortle 1.0#definitely gorgeous and i miss it#even now i'm living in town even the town centre doesn't get past suburban on the scale#those posts did make me wonder if those people had never been on a roadtrip or camping at all#like can't you just drive a couple hours out of the city?#no. actually. straight up you can't.#my condolences.
