Thanks,  no Ariel,  we were at the observatory in the afternoon,  so no chance of seeing stars.     And,  LA's smog is so bad,  that observatory is now more of a science of museum then anything else.

They make a LOT of movies there as well.     

 

The Hollywood sign through the smog.

 

 

Look very carefully to the left of the photo below.       Very Large skyscrapers less then two miles away are bearly visable.