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Have you ever counted how many stars you can see at night? I once did. There were 71 or 73. I do not recall with certainty. It was 2.43 years ago.

Only when I was in a city with enough polution and bright lights, or cloud cover to actually make it possible. Under those circumstances, you're lucky to make it to double digits.

waaaaayyyy to many stars to try and count where i live...its nice to look up in the sky at night time and see the beautiful starry sky

Nope. Never tried. I figure if Abraham couldn't do it, I certainly can't!

But you have the advantage of all kinds of technology he didn't...

I'm guessing one should be able to take a digital picture of it, and analyse how many distinct points of "non-black surrounded by black" pixles there are. Of course, you'd need to convert from grey scale to bw first...

Nope, couldnt imagine trying! LOL
Especially in the Australian outback, you can see so many stars even the whole Milky Way!

KisaTohru wrote: even the whole Milky Way!

* Looks for technomancer. Doesn't see him.*

Whew!!!

I must say that I've never been privileged enough to see a "start" at night. Could you tell me what they look like?

Okay...must be serious now...this isn't the Goof Off forum...

I've actually never tried to count the stars in the sky, although I have gone outside just to look at the stars when I'm back home. Virginia is infamous for really nice weather, so there are some spectacular nights where numerous stars are visible. I've never counted them, but a quick order of magnitude estimate from my last memory of watching the stars would be about a couple hundred or so...But then again, I'm really bad with estimating...

I never had a desire to count and/or catalog every star in the sky.
There is so much more to them then just the numbers. That is generally what I am thinking about when I look up into the nights sky.

Besides. Counting stars accurately is almost futile. The number of stars one person can see (let alone count) in one place at one time, could be entirely different then the person right next to them at the exact same place and time.

Though our eyes are similar, they are not identical. I may be able to take in just enough light to see the dim stars your eyes cannot perceive. While another might see those stars even I cannot perceive. And what about those stars who’s light travels so far that it just blends together with the light of other stars, giving that illuminate haze. How would you count those ones?

Counting them kind-of ruins the majesty of it all.

I guess if I was trying to fall asleep I might count stars…

-kaji

i would count, but i would forget which ones i already counted...

it was 3 stars

haha

actualyl, maybe about 21? i get scared when I look in the sky, especially at night. I get this feeling of lonliness for some reason

I'll try that sometime and get back to you.

Unfortunately, due to light pollution and general atmospheric conditions, viewing conditions where I am aren't the greatest. Even so, I've never tried counting them since that would not only be difficult, but ultimately pointless (from a personal perspective). I could probably total up the visible stars from a sky map anyways ( or atlest down to some specified magnitude) rather than deal with local conditions. Various stellar catalogues are also available anyways should I actually need such figures. Otherwise, I'd rather enjoy the night sky in a more relaxed fashion.

In any case since our local galaxy contains ~400 billion stars, I'm betting such an endeavour would take up rather more time than I have.

Technomancer wrote:Unfortunately, due to light pollution and general atmospheric conditions, viewing conditions where I am aren't the greatest.

The conditions in my little neck of America is what made such an endevor possible. (I only counted visible stars.)

No, I haven't counted how many stars there are at night. I don't really have that strong of a desire to. I'm content simply admiring them, and wondering what it would be like there.

The most I ever saw was 124

kaji wrote:Counting them kind-of ruins the majesty of it all.

I don't think it could ever really do that for me. I find magesty now less in the stars themselves as I can see with my earth tethered sight as I do in what they are. Giant balls of burning thousands and millions of years ago, their light reaching earth as it does right then as I look. How can something like that, so beautiful and such a complex arrangement of lights be anything but the work of God? I like the sky at night.

Gotjen wrote:The most I ever saw was 124

That's cool. That's really cool.

A thousand stars shine tonight
It's such a marvelous sight
Glitter poured over the sky
Shining for you and I

Light formed years ago
Destined here to go
A thousand stars for us to see
Now shining here for you and me

A thousand times I've looked at each star
Standing in wonder of who You are
Though such a dark empty night
I find comfort in the light

Over many a light year
each star shines down on me here
A night perfectly still
Beautiful in Your will

Your word made the earth and sky
I might not know how and why
You made the world with a plan
I'm secure here in Your hand

i dont like looking up at the sky. I get scared