I'm about to go with an eyepatch

[iksobarg]

for observation.

One that I can flip up easily.

Because it's kind of a pain to close the left eye so much.

I spose it will just have a strap to go around my head like the costume pirate ones.

Do the rest of you guys just keep the one eye closed for all you observation time?

That is all. Carry on!

"Arrgh!"

[Tinker1947]

I got a patch....

[Mark62]

Me too [emoji4]

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[ronin]

Close an eye, sometimes keep both open. Don't have a problem.

I often keep both open to locate or centre something as I am not looking at the object specifically just getting it in the middle, then I will close the left one so that what it would see doesn't impact/overlay.

[Sirius Starwatcher]

Both eyes open for me but the left one has a home made eye patch.

[Ant]

I have a patch as well. Just remember you have it on when answering the door!

Ant

[steppenwolf]

I have a patch too - so much more comfortable.

[Saganite]

Aye I  did sometimes wear my eyepatch, but I am with Ronin, in that provided there is no extraneous light

It is possible to keep both eyes open, and is much more comfortable.

[Uplooker]

I have a patch too - so much more comfortable.

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Very dignified Mr Richards. I have often thought of getting a patch. I do normally try observing with both eyes open, however there really is too much stray light about to make it comfortable. I guess getting a patch will be just like a lot of other things I read that people do. I think, what the heck would i bother myself doing that for? Then sometime later I try it and think what a fool I was for not having done it sooner.

AARRRgghhh

Ian

[nightfisher]

For me i tend to shut the left eye, but if im teasing out detail i might put my left hand over my left eye for a few seconds while using right eye to observe, so i can have both eyes open

[Ant]

The patch is not for use when observing - its when you have to turn on a torch / look at a screen (*Cough* answer the door), it preserves the night vision. 

Unless you want to actually look like a Pirate - what you get up to in your own home is down to you Steve...! 

[nightfisher]

^^^^^^ Like^^^^

[Moonshane]

Yaarrrr

[stash_old]

Yep got one - when I can find it

[Moonshane]

I just close my eye.

[steppenwolf]

:grin: You're a very, very naughty boy, Ant, I ought to have you keel-hauled for that ........

[Bart]

I know it sounds odd, but the patches didn't work for me. What I did eventually was order some swimming goggles with big 'lenses', took one off and blacked out the remaining one. My eyelashes weren't rubbing against the inside that way. Needed to order goggles with individual eye cups, or whatever the term is, so they can be separated cleanly. Very fetching....

Barry

[Floater]

I'm a patch guy, too.

[southernman]

Being blind in my right eye means I don't need an eyepatch. I just view with both eyes open.

[Astro Imp]

A patch was the cheapest upgrade I have come across yet.

[Mr Flibble]

I use a red one to maintain good night vision.

[Floater]

I use a red one to maintain good night vision.

Now that's cool .... I think ... or (?)

[Liquid360]

Have you decided on which patch? Apple is making a great one for $600, $800 with 4G. Otherwise I'd recommend those made by either Prada or Armani. Which patch you wear will define you as a person [emoji6]

[Floater]

No sir. I'm already defined. I'm definitely a person.

And, on occasion, I'm a person wearing an eyepatch. It's black and 'sculpted' (apparently - would you believe!?) and it fulfils its purpose by excelling at covering an eye. Any more than this would be a surfeit...

And the 'patch' to which YOU refer has nothing to do with preserving night vision - so I deduce you are being a rascal.

Now an apple to go with my eyepatch might be fine. But a whisky would be more to my taste ...

(Well, a rum would better fit the stereotype but I prefer whisky.)

[Liquid360]

I think eyepatches make me look fat... but it's probably not the patch, but my face that makes me look fat. [emoji57]