Re: Definitive moon size illusion experiment

From: Paul Lawler (stargazer_at_kilolaniDOT.net)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 05:24:14 GMT

"John Steinberg" <seesig@bottom.invalid> wrote in message
news:070720041456354624%seesig@bottom.invalid...
>
> But I recently had the eyeballs in for a tune-up and lube and I'm
> reasonably confident the corrective lenses are nicely dialed in.
> Although I still cannot locate an opthamologist to grant an after
> midnight appointment so as to get the best possible correction for
> astronomy use.

One thing is to get your doctor to prescribe a pair of "astronomy glasses."
The difference between these and your regular prescription is that these are
focused at infinity (instead of some closer point as is done normally).