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That depends on how good your vision is. Some people can see more than others without aid.
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Too many to count. I am sure even though you have it under Science category, even the scientists have not figured this out. If they have I cannot find it anywhere I have searched. As Carl Sagan used to say, "Billions and billions" no doubt.
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I am sorry that people are criticizing you for asking an honest question. There are no stupid questions and there is no need to put people down for any question. There are billions of stars visible from here, more than anyone can count - and that is just the begining. Keep being curious!
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I don't know how many, but I would imagine that it depends on where on the planet you are, since the distribution of 'nearby' stars is not uniform, but rather on a plane. Furthermore, light pollutoin, weather and as mentioned before, your own eyesight will obviously cause individual differences. Finally, remember that though the light may be visible, that does not neceessarily mean that the stars are still there, do you count these or not?
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Not as many as you'd think. About 5,000 stars are visible with the naked eye, and not all of these are visible at any one time and from any one place. With a small telescope, you can see hundreds of thousands, with a large telescope you can see millions of galaxies, with each galaxy possibly containing billions of stars. It's estimated that there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone.
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If you are talking about "naked eye stars" thats stars you can see without a telescope then the manufacturers of the latest computer astronomy software have put the number at exactly 9600 stars, the database all of them use for "naked eye visibility." Tycho Brahe a Danish Astronomer,counted all the stars he could see most accurate astronomical observations of his time. According to him there where 777 stars in the sky Captain William Henry Smyth's Bedford Catalog of 1850 lists stars as he saw them in England. He says: "The number of stars seen by the naked eye at once is seldom much above a thousand; though from their scintillation and the indistinct manner in which they are viewed, they appear to be almost infinite. check out (http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stars/stareye.html)
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