Re: The best telescope accessory is...

From: Martin R. Howell (martinhowell_at_ilikestarsearthlink.net)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:39:02 GMT

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:34:29 +1000, Geoff wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:50:37 GMT, Lawrence Sayre <lsayre@neo.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>>T wrote:
>
>>Next best is a Telerad or a Rigel finder.
>>
>>LAwrence Sayre
>
> A cheap eyepatch for saving the dark adaptation of the preferred
> observing eye.

And used at the telescope to cover the unobserving eye that remains open
which eliminates the stress of holding one eye open and the other shut. I
can see more detail and fainter objects that way, or so it seems to me. 

-- 
Martin
"Photographs From the Universe of Amateur Astronomy"
http://home.earthlink.net/~martinhowell

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