Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
—Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomer)
Though astronomers, both professional and amateur, were the original astrotourists, many people seeking dark skies are neither. As humans, we are linked to the sky above and have been as long as we have had the awareness that our closest star makes a daily appearance in the east, rising like magic, emerging from the horizon. Early humans might have thought it was coming right out of the Earth, as it does appear to do so. As the sun ascends skyward, our shadows grow shorter with each passing hour until it reaches the zenith, when our shadow disappears and is born anew as the sun begins its journey back into the ...
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