[ATMoB-discuss] Visible dust lanes in Milky Way?

[Mario E. Motta]

You saw what the milky way really looks like away from light pollution, 
enjoy,

Mario

jcantara at comcast.net wrote:

>The other night, I was up in NH, visiting my parents. I was about to leave (around midnight) and looked up at the stars. The sky was the absolute clearest sky I have ever seen! The milky way was clearly visible reaching across the sky. As my eyes adjusted, I could actually see dark dust lanes reaching across the milky way also!
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>Was I seeing things, or misinterpreting what I saw, or can that actually be seen on really clear nights?
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>Thanks :)
>-Jesse
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