You know, how does one truly observe the night skies in all their glory and majesty unless one is away from populated areas, where there's a lot of "light pollution" even late at night?
I imagine in blue cities, for example, it's hard enough to see the moon, much less the stars.
No wonder the nocturnally foul one, living in the congested northeast, thinks man is "big" enough to destroy the eart--er, planet, because he can't look outdoors and see how Eternal the universe and God are, and so the nocturnally foul one has a distorted and exaggerated notion of the powers of mankind.
That being said, the Sandhills of Nebraska, where there's more square miles per person, than persons per square miles, is most excellent for seeing thousands, hundreds of thousands, of stars on clear nights.
The only other places where I saw so much of what's in the skies at night were in south-central Russia, and anywhere in Ukraine when massive electrical outages occurred in the socialist paradise of the workers and peasants, making even very large cities dark as midnight.