Oh yes, they are! But it was winter before I came here, and the skies have been overcast for months. Nothing compares to still air on a summer night while you watch the stars above.
Also, I was in Denmark, so it's a bit further away from home.
Street lights, skyscrapers, housing. We're a very digital society these days, too. You'd have to go out far, perhaps somewhere like Tama, in order to see any stars in the sky.
I suppose 'rare for my area' is more accurate. Finland is...kind of backwater by most standards. The island I grew up on didn't have any at all, nor did it have indoor plumbing. The military base had electricity but it was reserved for important areas, like the defensive walls. Personal quarters just had lamps.
[Tuuri looks up at the planetarium ceiling, seeing the countless stars projected up there.]
The constellations look different, but it's the same idea of glowing stars. Though this is more what it looks like on nights with a visible moon. During the full moon, when it gets really dark, you can see even more stars than this. They're so numerous it looks almost like someone spilled milk all over the sky.
That really does sound pretty. The kinds of things we take for granted, hm?
[ Alas, human nature. Such pretty things hidden right above their heads all along. ]
Do you know any constellations? I'm not familiar at all, beyond the basic twelve for the Zodiac, and that's really more just because there's always a column in girl magazines.
There's a few I know, we use them to track the seasons and trips.
[She will go looking for them in the stars above them, and she will explain the ones she recognizes. I, Maple, know nothing about stars, so pretend there is actual content here.]
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Date: 2023-02-08 12:36 am (UTC)Yeah. Tuuri will practically drag Eto there, she's so excited.]
So it's really a building full of stars?
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Date: 2023-02-08 12:44 am (UTC)Projected stars, just to warn you -- but yes, that's right.
I had thought that in many parts of Finland, the skies were actually fairly clear at night.
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Date: 2023-02-08 01:03 am (UTC)Also, I was in Denmark, so it's a bit further away from home.
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Date: 2023-02-08 01:06 am (UTC)Tokyo is very guilty of light pollution. At best, I can only see a star here or there most nights, and the moon.
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Date: 2023-02-08 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-08 02:37 am (UTC)Street lights, skyscrapers, housing. We're a very digital society these days, too. You'd have to go out far, perhaps somewhere like Tama, in order to see any stars in the sky.
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Date: 2023-02-08 02:41 am (UTC)Oh! You mean electric lights! I could see where that would make too much light to see the stars, yes. Electric lights are so bright.
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Date: 2023-02-08 02:49 am (UTC)What is the technology level in your world, exactly? Are electric lights rare?
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Date: 2023-02-08 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-08 03:25 am (UTC)Even fire and lanterns, with enough of them, could drown out the sky, but electric lights do it much more efficiently.
[ She looks at the planetarium, the dotted stars. ]
Is this an accurate representation, then?
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Date: 2023-02-08 04:06 am (UTC)The constellations look different, but it's the same idea of glowing stars. Though this is more what it looks like on nights with a visible moon. During the full moon, when it gets really dark, you can see even more stars than this. They're so numerous it looks almost like someone spilled milk all over the sky.
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Date: 2023-02-08 04:09 am (UTC)That really does sound pretty. The kinds of things we take for granted, hm?
[ Alas, human nature. Such pretty things hidden right above their heads all along. ]
Do you know any constellations? I'm not familiar at all, beyond the basic twelve for the Zodiac, and that's really more just because there's always a column in girl magazines.
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Date: 2023-02-10 12:13 am (UTC)[She will go looking for them in the stars above them, and she will explain the ones she recognizes. I, Maple, know nothing about stars, so pretend there is actual content here.]
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Date: 2023-02-10 02:13 am (UTC)Polaris, the North Star. Ever a reliable guide for the seafaring.
Wonder why we rely on people to tell us things when the natural world has always been right there.
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Date: 2023-02-10 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-10 10:33 am (UTC)[ She approves. ]
I was never a nature sort of person myself, but this is making me see the appeal of it.