Just give me a few. I don’t care, just as long as they are worth it.
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Although I've never witnessed them firsthand, I'm intrigued by the Milky Way Galaxy and the Aurora Borealis. Experiencing these breathtaking phenomena is a dream I hope to fulfill someday.
They are absolutely beautiful. I once went to a bortle 2 sight. I was just shocked. Aurorae are also extremely beautiful. The modern age sucks.
Shooting Stars/meteorites
Does this count I don't know a lot about the night sky.
Yes. But meteorites are found on the ground. I am going to assume that was a mistake.
Saturn and Jupiter ...... First time I viewed them both through my telescope, just blew my mind!! ( also the fact that you're looking through time as well as space just freaks me out!)
If I could see everything like the Webb or Hubble, I’m sure I’d have a different answer. The moon is my favorite! That it’s so close (respectively) that we can see mares and certain craters with the naked eye; that it has phases of reflective solar light that we can watch and admire; that through the course of a night, we can watch it travel across the sky, often enhanced by back-lit, passing clouds; that under our own atmospheric conditions, it takes on beautiful, different colors. I prefer silver.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman" I love it when the moon appears like this.
Pleiades. It is the closest known cluster, and visible throughout winter. It is easily visible with the naked eye.
There’s so much light pollution where I live that the moon and Venus are the only things even remotely visible. I like watching the moon through a telescope and I once saw an orbiter go around it
Ye. That sucks. People don’t need that much light. There is this book that I have recently read called “the end of night” (I forgot the author) . One of the most depressing book that I have ever read.
I just enjoy being able to see the stars. I was in the Boundary Waters (lakes and islands in the area between Michigan and Canada) a few years ago and the entire sky was filled with stars, and it was so beautiful. I also got to see the International Space Station fly over from my house, and while it's not technically a stellar object, it was very cool to see.
Going with the one I've seen through a telescope. Orions Nebula. There's a free telescope in Gilbert, Az every Friday and Saturday and got to see it a couple of times. Like a blue hazy horseshoe.
Yeah. I have actually been there one time. Shame that it is surrounded by light pollution ☹️
I live in a small town no light or smoke! I love it all.
Lucky. The things I would do to visit a bortle 1 site, or even a bortle 2 site
Light Pollution! Its giving cyberpunk 2077
Light pollution is not a stellar object. It is a curse
The Southern Cross, just makes me smile. Best idea ever that it was incorporated into our National flag. Love being Australian, love lying under a star filled sky and seeing the Southern Cross.
If I'd have a long-range telescope my answer would be far different (Eagle Nebula) As it is I was lucky enough - and downright dumbass to not appreciate it properly back then, I was 8 or so - to see the Milky Way from a 700m altitude remote village in my country, shown by my dad who was a huge cosmos, science, philosophy and spirituality enthusiast. I realise now it was breathtaking seeing all those myriads of stars and the interstellar gas, never again saw anything like it IRL. But I think that was the basis for my subsequent fascination with the very same things my dad enjoyed.
