Astronomy Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena
About Astronomy
—Oscar Wilde There are many reasons to combine travelling with a look upwards. Given that you can see a different set of stars in the sky depending on the latitude you are at, if you're at all interested in astronomy and happen to travel across the Equator or even to thetropics, do take a look upwards at nighttime. More enthusiastic astronomers may even make a trip, in order to e.g. see a specific total solar eclipse that isn't visible where they live. In modern cities, light pollution means that the starry sky is hardly visible. The far-off countryside (particularly inlow-income countrieswhere electric power is scarce) provide an astounding view of the stars. Mountains and deserts are also better places to look at the stars than others, firstly because they usually lack the light pollutio
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