Stargazing
Facts, tips and ideas about Stargazing — and how to find people for it.
Did you know?
Looking up at the stars long enough puts your own worries oddly back in proportion — best done lying on your backs, side by side.
The light you're seeing from Betelgeuse right now took 642 years to reach your eyes — the star could have exploded long ago without us knowing it yet.
Source: Wikipedia
Tip
20 minutes without phone light is enough for your eyes to adjust. Then you see everything.
Even in the darkest city park, you see only the brightest thirty stars. An hour out into the countryside, and it becomes thousands.
Your eye needs about twenty minutes without bright light. After that the same sky is a different one.
Break the ice
“Do you think we're alone in the universe?”
“When did you last really stand still and look up — where were you at the time?”
Right now
Warm summer night — a good night for stargazing.
Not every line here is sourced. Where a source is named you can read it up; the rest is collected knowledge.