Beauty of night sky question

[PL10]

:help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_sky#mediaviewer/File:Starry_Night_at_La_Silla.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_sky#mediaviewer/File:Paranal_Nights.jpg

I have no idea. Can a sky look this way without equipment if far enough away from city lights? Or was it probably time lapse exposed?

For instance in the middle of the desert looking up.

[barx1963]

Not really. These are photographs more than likely taken with moderately long exposures. Firstly you will never see the colours, the colour cells in your eye just aren't sensitive enough to pick up the colours you see here.
Next several objects like Eta Carina that are bright in this pic would appear as faint blobs with the naked eye, you can see them at reasonably dark sites, and easily see them when the sky is really good, but nowhere near this level of detail.
That said would still love to go to Chile to see these skies!

Malcolm

[brian nordstrom]

Hi PL10 and:welcome: to IIS , your question is a good one.
On my trip driving from Darwin to Perth I had the luck to drive to and stay anywhere I fancied and as luck would have it I spotted the turn off to Wolf creek crater so off I went .
What an awesome spot for stargazing :eyepop: , as dark as any place on earth , simply amazing.
I spent 2 nights there and will never forget them , and as a bonus I never saw a soul in those nights , so if you get a chance to get out back do it , its unbelievably dark out there.
ps. I seen M31 naked eye :thumbsup:.

Brian.

[Renato1]

You won't see them quite as good as that. But you will see them, especially if somewhere very dark you wait for 15 to 20 minutes for your eyes to dark adapt (i.e. don't look at any artificial light in that time) and you will see a lot more.
Regards,
Renato

[PL10]

THANK YOU, CLEARS IT UP! :thanx:

diff question anybody have data showing Apollo 11 truly dropped on July 20, 1969? they left lazer reflectors anybody could bounce off of from earth? any independent confirmations that days after July 21?

www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/experiments/lrr/

My doubt isn`t helped revelation the A11 flag 'blew over' so recent photo no showing it`s strange

www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/nasa-apollo-11-flag-from-mans-first-moon-landing-missing/
news.discovery.com/space/flags-on-the-moon-still-standing-120731.htm
www.space.com/16798-american-flags-moon-apollo-photos.html

“From the LROC images it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11,” he wrote :question: