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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prince of Happiness" data-source="post: 3845996" data-attributes="member: 19819">The night sky is one of the things I look forward to when I go backpacking. One night was a clear sky with the full moon on Mount Olympus in Olympic National Park. I had never experienced a moon that...powerful before. At first I thought it was the ranger making his rounds and shining a flashlight in the tent. Wrong! It was indeed Luna, and without so much of the light pollution that is normally found, the moon was HUGE, like you could climb to it or build a bridge from the mountain top.Then there's just the sheer number of stars that come out on moonless nights, and the constellations suddenly make a LOT more sense, and your mind starts to fill in little details from the smaller stars that fit into the spaces between the major points of a constellation. It saddens me, a little, to think that there are people who have never seen this.</blockquote>