Stellafane Observing!

I got back to the B&B at 2 AM after a spectacular night of observing the stars under jet black skies.  It was a magnificent night for observing!  It was so dark, at 1 AM when two of my good friends approached the telescope I did not recognize them in the dark.  This is the Milky Way, a beautiful and sublime slight that most of the population in the United States has never even seen.  When I want to observe under dark skies, I drive out to the east end of Long Island where you can see the Milky Way on a clear night.  But that was 20 years ago, and now the Milky Way from there is only a faint representation of what it once was.  So to see the Milky Way in all it's glory in a dark sky is good for the soul!