tilt...

[nickdud]

just spent the night with Andromeda through my bins and found if i centered it in my fov then tilted my head left and right(or right and left if you are not a corkie) it became quite a lot more defined...

see what you think peeps

[faulksy]

yes it does work its called averted vision. the reason this happens is the centre of your eye works in bright conditions and the sides of your eyes work in dark conditions. hope this makes sence

[Pete Presland]

i always feel like i am cheating when using averted vision its amazing the difference it can make

[paul schofield]

Averted vision helps a great deal with me when viewing fainter objects and sometimes I find looking straight at the object can make it almost disappear completely. Something I think to do with the optic nerves at the side of your eye being more sensitive to certain light wave lengths (or something like that) the correct terms I have no idea of, but that works for me.

[jamespels]

Quite an interesting explanation here: http://xkcd.com/1080/large/

[faulksy]

1. thats how the blinking planet works.disapears then boo! re appears