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    The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

    I live in Madison, WI. I was driving home yesterday after picking up some late night McDonald's and found it so surreal and disorienting that the sky just looks uniformly black. Like it's not even a real sky.
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    The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

    No, I'm not letting my eyes adjust to the dark while driving or walking around my city. I'm telling you, as I walk through life normally and use my bare senses, the night sky looks black with no features in Madison, WI in comparison to Ashland, WI, in which the night sky is alive with lights and...
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    The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

    Certainly that's not the conversation lol Do you think I actually think the stars in the sky have disappeared? I'm saying that living in a city is eerie because there is no illumination from the sky at all. It's just solid black TO THE NAKED EYE like a canvas pulled over the sky
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    The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

    It looks absolutely pitch black to me. I don't see any light at all. It looks like a black cloth has been pulled over the sky. Now when I go up north, the sky looks much lighter with all the stars and the Milky Way
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    The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

    What's crazy to me is that in losing our ability to see stars and what not, the sky is actually darker. It's surreal to me to constantly look up at the night sky in my not very big city and just see nothing. No stars, no light, just pure pitch blackness. It makes it feel like a video game.