One of the things that makes me question my own perceptions and my own abilities to estimate and to assume what's reasonable and what's not ...
... is estimating the number of stars you can see on a bright clear night, say in Montana.
If someone asked me to guess, I'd say I was looking at hundreds of thousands of stars with my naked eye. In fact, on an average night, at any given time, I can see 4,000 stars or less, depending on whether I can see 6.0 magnitude stars.
Just a few thousand? Doesn't seem right.
What a sight it must have been from the back of the moon, no atmosphere, no scattered light .....
Lannis