Spend an hour stargazing.
🔄 Repeatable👤 All ages
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Find a spot away from city lights and give your eyes 20-30 minutes to adjust to the darkness for the best experience. Use a red flashlight to preserve night vision while checking star maps, and try to identify major constellations - the perspective shift of contemplating cosmic scales is profoundly grounding.
Difficulty
8/100Easy
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Cost
Free
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Time
1hour
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People
1+
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Setting
outdoor
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Season
any
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Equipment
blanket, star chart app
People who tried this
“It was a little unnerving being so far away from anything lol, but then we got out of the car and looked up. It was incredible, I got to see the milky way for the first time. Best way I could describe it, big bands of light that stretch across the sky. It glows, but in a different way than the stars do. And the stars were glowing SO BRIGHT! I swear there was thousands above us.”
“Also, tonight was the first night I used my Ipad for stargazing. It was incredible. I just used the SkySafari 3 app which I bought for .99 and it was amazing. Since I'm new to stargazing, I have trouble finding a lot of stars but not anymore! Skysafari has a built in compass so I can literally hold my Ipad up to the sky and find whatever I'm looking for! The night vision mode really helped keep my eyes adjusted and I can even search for a particular celestial object and it will point me right to it! [...] But still, I spent an hour outside star gazing before I realized I should probably get ready work tomorrow!”
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