Mars evening of Sept 9, 2020

[mikeDnight]

4 hours ago, paulastro said:

The reason it is better with binoviewing, is not to to with receptor size, it's to do with the physiology of the brain.  When it receives an image from each eye it combines the two images into one image which is better than either of the images from each eye alone. Its a bit like the physiological version of taking two astro images and playing about with software and getting a single image which is better than either of the two single images. 😄  If you look through just one of your eyes (in the daytime)  and then use both eyes you can see this for yourself.  Luckily our brains have an auto function to do this for us without us having to think about it.

Thanks for that Sigmund.  So just to clarify,  using both light receptive retina's has nothing to do with increasing the over all size of the light receptive area? 

[paulastro]

No need to be rude Mike.

However big your retinars are,  the reason you get a better image using binovision is for the reason I gave.