The picture alone does that for me.

of cities. A few years ago I was in Colorado and it was like there were a thousand times more stars.

I used to live at 9 thousand feet altitude in the Atacama desert on the Tropic of Capricorn. Not only is the Milky Way a stupendous sight, but the stars seem close enough to pick out of the sky.

thanks for sharing .

Totally connected with the universe.

Someone here said something like "if your eyes were the size of dinner plates".

Something that didn't distort or magnify but simply collected way more light than the eye can alone. And I don't mean a camera or night vision goggles. Just big ass opticals collecting natural light. (Okay, a zoom would be nice too).

You would have to use care as a street light could be too much.

I've spent a considerable amount of time thinking about what you mention and I don't believe it is physically possible.

I have a six inch Newtonian reflector and at low powers (20 X or so) the full Moon will leave spots in front of your eyes for some time after you look at it through the scope, it can be physically painful it's so bright, you can see the beam come out of the eyepiece.

Something like a long Nagler eyepiece on a short focal length refractor gives a "space walk" experience under dark and transparent skies. They look a bit ridiculous since the eyepiece is nearly as big as the objective lens.

The bucket list gets 1 line longer.

Since the recession, I'm lucky to see a dozen, maybe two dozen stars on a really clear night. Growing up, it was not unusual to never see stars at all - only a luminous purple-orange fog overhead. Constellations were stick figures in a book.

That's my new wallpaper on the pad! Just beautiful.

Very sad that we can't see it nowadays. It really made me feel like we were part of the cosmos.