I live in a very densely populated part of the UK, on a clear night i can see up to 30-40 stars! usually including Orion, Ursa major and Ursa minor (and sometimes the planets Venus or mars). Out in the countryside I love to star watch, you can usually three to four hundred! but I have never seen anything like what is pictured in that part of Wikipedia. I have seen it in movies but I always assumed it was an exaggeration or that you needed to be in the southern hemisphere to see it. Makes me feel a little depressed reading about what everyone else has seen.
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I live in a very densely populated part of the UK, on a clear night i can see up to 30-40 stars! usually including Orion, Ursa major and Ursa minor (and sometimes the planets Venus or mars). Out in the countryside I love to star watch, you can usually three to four hundred! but I have never seen anything like what is pictured in that part of Wikipedia. I have seen it in movies but I always assumed it was an exaggeration or that you needed to be in the southern hemisphere to see it. Makes me feel a little depressed reading about what everyone else has seen.