Amazed at the boy

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Last night we were looking at stars and a meteor thing and I was telling him which stars make up the plough / Uma etc.

"The second one has got a little one on top of it", he says. Looked it up today and he's right. Mizar and Alcor, almost 12' separation. He must have eyes like a thing with really good eyes, or is it me?

Captain Chaos

[GordonCopestake]

I can bearly see Mizar let alone Alcor!

[The Warthog]

It's you. I used to be able to see that double - it is sometimes called the 'eyetester,' but I cannae see it nae mare. This happens when we all get old. "This" is an anagram, BTW.

[Ambermile]

Aye - "this" happens. Apparently, the Romans used it as a sight test for soldiers... whereas the Brits were more the "See lightning hear thunder" school of thought :roll:

Arthur

[OXO]

"hello is this the Post Office?"

"No sir your in the Bank of england"

I can see those perfectly i guess i will look forward to having WH's anagram vision in the futre :shock:.

James

[Kain]

I can always see Mizar and Alcor..

Whats Mizars little friend called when you look though the scope?

Kain

[OXO]

Whats Mizars little friend called when you look though the scope?

Zeta Ursae majoris

[FLO]

Eyes like a hawk me

Wish I could say the same about my hearing

Mind you, I still can't see dust lanes in Andromeda

[OXO]

Mind you, I still can't see dust lanes in Andromeda

You need a dusty eyepiece Steve

Jokeing aside i see them no problem i do have the advantage of years of observing though so maybe thats a factor..

James

[FLO]

Joking aside i see them no problem i do have the advantage of years of observing though so maybe thats a factor..

Perhaps,

I am not kidding, I have 'bottom of the test-chart' eyesight (last eye-test five years ago) but, try as I might, I can't see them :?

[OXO]

Same here Steve i had an eye test around september last year flew through it they didnt have anything to chalenge the eyesight :shock:. I wonder do you use Averted vision Steve?

James

[GordonCopestake]

When the optician asked me to read the chart i asked him where it was :| £300 later I could see again, even if I did look silly

[FLO]

I wonder do you use Averted vision Steve?

Yes,

Perhaps I simply need more practise.

[The Warthog]

I was squinting through a refractor last Friday, at Jupiter. I could only faintly make out bands on the surface, and I invited my wife to take a look. She looked at it, then said, "Am I supposed to be seeing those two dark lines across the middle of it?" The eyes are the last link in the optical chain...

[GordonCopestake]

When my missus looks through my telescope she has to refocus it. That tells my theres something wrong with my eyes.....

[The Warthog]

When my missus looks through my telescope she has to refocus it. That tells my theres something wrong with my eyes.....

Or hers?

[GordonCopestake]

I'm reliably informed by her that she has 20:20 vision and that im the one who needs glasses even though i never wear them and why havn't you done the washing up and walked the dogs instead of sitting at the computer talking about telescopes with your astronerd friends? hmmmmmm now i know why I ensured that my radio lan reached all the way to the shed!

[daz]

Yep, I can see 'em clearly CC