On a clear night how many stars can you see without a telescope?

Answer 1

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"Of the billions and billions of stars in the heavens, only about 6,000 can be seen from the earth without a telescope. And about a quarter of these 6,000 stars cannot be seen from most lands north of the equator."

Other estimates range anywhere from 2000 to 10,000, depending on where you are and what reference you use.

Answer 2

The question needs tighter limits. Where are you on earth? Do you have foggy coastal air, dirty city air with lights, or a dark mountain top or clear desert air? What size telescope do you mean? A two inch spyglass or the 60 inch on Mt Wilson? Even larger scopes are not used visually, but only with instruments. How young are your eyes, what is the maximum pupil opening when dark-adapted, and do you have good night vision? With just average eyes with no problems or visual aids, and in perfect viewing conditions, one can see several thousand stars in the entire sphere of the sky. Since a person on earth can see less than half the sky at one time, it may be just over a thousand at any one time. Telescopes add much light to the view. With an eight inch diameter reflector, one could see more than a million stars. With a twelve inch one, perhaps three to ten millions. The Milky Way galaxy has billions of stars, but we can see only the small part nearest us. Most of it is behind vast clouds of dust and gases. And other galaxies are too far away for most small telescopes to pick out individual stars. Best guess is anywhere between a few hundred thousand to a few billion stars, but it is not possible to narrow that range without more limits to the question.

Answer 3

Under optimum conditions, on certain nights, far from any city lights, you can see a total of about 3.500 stars with the naked eye (and 2,500 is more typical). With 10X50 binoculars, you can see 125,000. With an observatory telescope many billions more than that.

Answer 4

You can literally see millions of stars on a very clear night without a telescope. The best views are taken from unlit places like the forest.

Answer 5

Without a telescope, you can see about 6,000 stars in the night sky.

Answer 6

On a clear night, you can see around 2,500 stars with the naked eye in the most light-polluted areas. In dark sky locations, you might be able to see up to 3,000 stars.

Answer 7

Between one and 373.2 millions.

Answer 8

about 6000