"PSmith9626" wrote in message
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Dear peter,
In a dark sky, you will see with your unaided eye--more than 6000 stars,
and
the milky way.

In the entire sky there are something like 6500 "naked eye" stars. Given the
fact that you can only see half the sky at any one time, and that
atmospheric extinction wipes out faint stars close to the horizon, I doubt
that you could ever see more than, perhaps, 2000-2500 stars at any given
time in even the darkest of skies!

Where do you get your figure of 6000 from?

Curiously,

Chris