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Re: Cities without lights?
From: Norm Goldblatt
Date: 2013 Dec 2, 17:04 -0800
From: Norm Goldblatt
Date: 2013 Dec 2, 17:04 -0800
I think they're all stunning- wallpaper or not, although in the darkest of skies we can't see 11-12 mag stars and therefore I doubt any human has seen skies like this unaided as Frank implied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting_magnitude
quotes a generally accepted 6 and a heroic 8.
Here's a Starry Night Sagitarius with limit of 6,8,10,12
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