I could see myself buying a big old telescope and getting into gazing at the stars when I'm older. Totally fascinating.
I grew up in a village a good few miles away from any urban centre. Now I live close to a city centre, one of the biggest things I missed is going into the garden and gazing up at a clear, star-filled sky. Light pollution means my view of the night sky isn't anything like as impressive as it was as a child in a village.
When I was 20 I went on holiday to Egypt. We were in a hotel on the Red Sea coast with no major urban environment for hundreds of miles. There was a small town called El Quesir but it was very undeveloped and not a significant source of light pollution. One evening whilst out there I walked about half a mile or so inland, into a massive expanse of nothing, and looked up into the night sky. It was incredible, like nothing I had ever seen before. The sky was as much lit up by stars as it was black.
I grew up in a village a good few miles away from any urban centre. Now I live close to a city centre, one of the biggest things I missed is going into the garden and gazing up at a clear, star-filled sky. Light pollution means my view of the night sky isn't anything like as impressive as it was as a child in a village.
When I was 20 I went on holiday to Egypt. We were in a hotel on the Red Sea coast with no major urban environment for hundreds of miles. There was a small town called El Quesir but it was very undeveloped and not a significant source of light pollution. One evening whilst out there I walked about half a mile or so inland, into a massive expanse of nothing, and looked up into the night sky. It was incredible, like nothing I had ever seen before. The sky was as much lit up by stars as it was black.