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I agree, it is awesome looking up on those dark nights. I get a feeling of insignificance. My brother is really into the stars, has a killer motorized compensating telescope that his camera attaches directly to. Huge diameter. You look up in a book what it is you want to see, enter the code and the telescope moves itself and puts it dead center in the view-field and keeps it there. 99% of the time you can not even see it with your naked eye. I asked him to zoom in on the moon one time and it was ridiculously close, like looking at your hand close up. He loves when he comes to visit me because of the lack of ambient light, I have been asking him to bring it over when he visits and we could set it up on chappy some night, but this thing is a PIA to move around.
I like it pitch black in my back yard. After the summer people leave I walk around the few homes near me and unscrew all the light bulbs so they do not come on all winter. (For some reason, city people like lights, they leave them on all winter long even when they are not there)The sky is amazing when you eliminate extraneous light.
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