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From the Vault: Stargazer and the Well

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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How to See the Stars in the Daytime

Nobody agrees that this is possible. The atmosphere extends to a height of 50 miles or more above the Earth's surface. A shaft or chimney 100 to 200 feet high could do little to take away that glare. And anyone who has ever actually looked up from the bottom of such a shaft, as I have from the top of a collary must have been struck by its dazzling brilliance.

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