3 Feb
2012
3 Feb
'12
10:20 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Just one? The James Webb.
LOL, it's primarily an ifra-red instrument, and I don't think it would even work in a non-zero-G environment. Too, I'm sure the image plane is huge in comparison to your pupil diameter. You could never use the full aperture visually.
Kim, a long time ago there was an article in S&T about what the human eye would be like if optimized for night-time use. The illustration was kinda creepy. If you get a huge pupil diameter, you need a larger diameter eyeball so that the retina can be appropriately curved to match it. I suppose the brain would have specialized image-processing abilities too, though.