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Originally Posted by Graebarde
First it is not really really dark in the desert at night unless it is overcast. The billlions and billions of stars supply an amazing about of illumination...
(I lived and worked in the desert at least fifty miles from ground lights.. the heavens are beautiful when uncluttered by ground wash or smog)
but I CAN understand the disorientation if you don't know how to read the stars. It's like being at sea.. a sea of sand in the case of north Africa.
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Yeah, my father remembers how bright the sky was with all the stars and Mily Way when he was on a ship going across the Pacific on his way to Korea in the mid-1950's. I also talked to a fellow ham radio operator who served aboard the USS Melvin in World War II. The destroyer did get hit by a torpedo from a Japanese sub and they lost 256 shipmates at one time. That story was hard for him to tell, but he also remember, like my father, how bright the stars were.