It’s so sad we can’t see the night sky anymore
Im not an astronomy guy, but I was watching orb: on the movements of the earth, on Netflix, which is in short an anime that is heavily related to Astronomy in the 1500s, and I saw the sky they animated there and wondered if the real sky, in a place without any light pollution could look at least close to that.
Then I discovered Bortle zones, and the difference tiers, and I still haven’t seen anything better than maybe a bortle 6, but from the pictures, a bortle 1-3 looks freaking amazing.
I can’t even comprehend how it’ll feel like to look at that in real life. It made me sad about this everyday loss, people used to be able to see that night sky almost every day of their life, but with so much light pollution, there are scarcely any places that are truly bortle 1 from what I understood.
While I recognize all the gifts modernity has brought us, this feels like a profound loss, like not being able to watch the sea or the sunset anymore.