drove 40 minutes out of town for one clear hour and it was worth every mile

light-pollution refugee report: found a gravel pull-off past the last streetlight, let my eyes adjust for twenty minutes, and the milky way just... resolved. the core was right there.

no scope tonight, just binoculars and a folding chair. sometimes the whole hobby is being somewhere dark long enough to remember the sky is still doing this every single night whether we look up or not.