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Default Re: Primer: Understanding night vision, averted gaze and telescope tapping - 7th November 2009, 09:47 AM

The world is the right way up - it's just the light falls onto your retina upside-down. Have a look here:

http://asweknowit.net/images_edu/DWA...upsidedown.gif
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Default Re: Primer: Understanding night vision, averted gaze and telescope tapping - 7th November 2009, 11:51 AM

Thanks, I am slowly starting to understand. I also found this page which maybe helpful:

How do we see things upright if the image formed on the retina in our eye is an inverted one?


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Default Re: Primer: Understanding night vision, averted gaze and telescope tapping - 29th July 2010, 09:59 AM

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