On 1/23/2015 12:06 PM, Joan Carman wrote:
Not sure it's "old" eyes, but it is the eyes. With your eyes looking through binos, everything is dark and you irises open up that extra millimeter that makes seeing Lovejoy so easy, but laying on your back, the extra light from all around you shuts those irises just enough. Patrick was still in his observatory where a lot of extra light sources in Stansbury were still blocked. You were in the open in St. George, plenty of extra light sources nearby. That's my theory at least.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Gary" <davegary@me.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 4:11:39 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Love joy naked eye
You’ve got better vision than me. Must be all those carrots. I laid down in the driveway observatory night-before-last and did, basically, the same thing you did (minus the airplanes). No go. I couldn’t make out anything naked-eye. I couldn’t even conjure an image naked-eye with averted vision. Must be all that exposure from work or old eyes or both. Strange, it’s so bright in my binoculars and they’re 7X35.
He probably was looking at the back of his eyelids......,zzzzz 73