how many stars can you see at night?

Question

its dark now and i cant see any. we had a clear sky all day so no clouds.i used to watch the stars as a child. these days or nights children will never see them

im asking because im concerned about light pollution

dr anders thats so bad most people dont know they cant see stars if we just turned our lights off? please everyone turn lights off

Answer 1

Only one and it´s not even a star. It´s Venus. The sky gets too bright up here during the summer. Soon there won´t be a night at all. Instead there will just be a combined sunset/sunrise with no stars visible at all. :(
But this is how it always has been. Lightpollution and airpollution is a sader reason for not being able to see the stars. After the Northridge earthquake in 1994 the phonelines got swamped with people calling 911 concerned about a huge mysterious light in the sky that they had never seen before. Was a UFO the cause of the quake? That was the reaction from people seeing the Milky Way for the first time in their lives because of the black outs...

Answer 2

In dark skies, a person would be able to see about 2500 stars at any given time (without the aid of a telescope). Light polluted skies have a definite effect on that number, with maybe as few as 10 of the brightest stars even visible in the big cities.

I live in a rural area of Iowa and there are many sodium vapor lights out even on the most remote of areas and a dark sky here will yield perhaps 1500 star, and as when one looks to the horizon the stars are washed out by those lights

Answer 3

The stars are becoming less visable now because of the light being poored into the sky by something as simple as a bedroom light. If you were to see a map of light the most would come from new york city with the cars and street lights and so on. All this light is causing us to see the starts less and less. i love stars..)= makes me sad.
But ya. light pollution is pretty bad and people should be more concerned. I think they should make it a law to use black rubber certains. We're starting to see less and less stars. If any, a lot more faded. )= waaaa.

Answer 4

There are about 6,000 stars bright enough to see with the unaided eye on a really clear, dark night. Of course half of them are below the horizon at any one time, and near the horizon the longer sight line in the atmosphere dims the stars below about 10 degrees considerably. So you usually cannot see more than about 2,000 at any one time. Also, really clear dark nights are rare now days. No city has dark nights any more because of all the outdoor lighting.

Answer 5

I used to live in coastal Connecticut, and I could easily see millions of stars on a clear night, then I moved to Detroit (which was a huge mistake) and now I'm lucky to see more than just a handful.

Answer 6

You can see about 3,000 distinct stars on a dark night. However, you can also see the Milky Way of our galaxy, which contains about 200 billion stars that you can't see individually but you can see the light from as a cloudy part of the sky. And on summer nights, you can see the Andromeda Galaxy, which is made up of another 400 billion stars.

So somewhere between 3,000 and 600 billion.

Answer 7

In Leicester UK you're lucky if you can see a dozen! I was amazed when I went to Arizona, I'd never seen so many stars in the sky, beautiful.

Answer 8

Only a few left it seems, turning light off now.

Answer 9

most nights on a clear night you will see venus. it looks like a star but its closer and much brighter than some other stars

Answer 10

On a clear night millions and planets.