The closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had is contemplating existence while staring into the infinities of a star-lit sky.

It's been years since I've seen one.

Away from light pollution. The sky especially in clear winter nights is stunning.

Some clear nights in summer you get the haze of the Milky Way.

Thrn I saw The Milky Way while I and a friend slept out in our sleeping bags overnight in Monument Valley in 1979!

The full moon was up at 9PM when we turned in. When we woke up at 3AM - there it was, arcing 2/3rds in the sky over us. The amazing splendor!

Then in the mid- '80s up in the NYS countryside; somwwhat north of Goshen on 3 vacations I saw the sky full of stars. Ahhhhhh.

I lived in HI for 5 years I like the Catskills better. Though with climate change we do not get as much snow for activities as we did.

Went to a wellness retreat/organic farm on occasion more or less N, NW if Gosgen.
Person also had a gigantic vegetable & fruit farm in Goshen 1980s

The Big Dipper in the north at night. So pretty!

In our last family apt in the Winter I could see Orion out my window! So wonderful!
Been about 10 yrs since I've seen a sky full of stars. I was in a small village on Swirzerland.