Re: eye relief

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:18:46 -0400, "Mark S. Holden" <mark@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Zarkovic wrote:
>
>> Hello again people.
>> I am afraid I have to bother some of you again, with this notion of eye
>> relief. I am just not sure whether it applies to me or does it even matter
>> when buying eyepieces?
>> First of all, if you do wear glasses, is it possible to adjust the picture
>> that you are seeing if it's blurry (like that middle button in the
>> binoculars)?
>>
>> Second, I do wear glasses sometimes, since I am near sighted, but not that
>> much at all. I just have trouble seeing minor details on things that are
>> like 15 meters away, like name of the street I can't read them or something,
>> but everything else is good. When I am on my comp, I usually don't put on
>> glasses and so forth, so does that mean that I need to wear them to see the
>> sky properly and therefore even buy the eyepieces with lots of eye relief or
>> not?
>>
>> Or, should I get eyepieces with lots of eye relieft in any case, with or
>> without glasses. Sorry, I am just a little bit confused on this issue. Thank
>> you again.
>>
>>
>
>If you just wear glasses for distance or things that are up close,
>you'll probably be better off observing without your glasses and just
>focusing accordingly.
>
>Folks who have problems with astigmatism aren't so lucky.
>

I thought Astigmatism was going to be a problem for me. Normally I
wear eyeglasses, but about 3 years ago I switched to contact lenses.

Bill
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