Why I still drive two hours for a dark site

This is the Davis Mountains in Texas. No filter trick gets my backyard anywhere near this. Every dark-sky trip resets my idea of what "a lot of stars" means.

What's the darkest place you've ever stood?

Photo: Carl Young, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

@mara_oduya · Core contributor

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@wren_holloway

A lake in northern Ontario on a paddling trip. Couldn't find the constellations because there were too many stars in the way.

@beatriz_m

That silhouette in the lower left does so much work. Scale changes everything.

@hollis_grant

High camp in the Sierra, years ago. I actually got cold because I wouldn't stop looking and go to bed.

@cal_reyes

Rural Portugal. First time I understood why it's called the Milky Way.

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