Actually, our Green Laser does help me to "See" stars... My wife has much better eyes than I do, and many times I cannot see the dimmer stars in the sky. However, if she points the green laser at a particular dim star, it helps my eyes to identify and focus on that particular star and see what she is identifying in the night sky. Well, that's my 2 cents worth. (BTW - As I read that article about the guy being busted for blinding a pilot, it did mention that his laser was one he had for "Testing Fiber Optics", which would be of unknown power and obviously not intended for use as an astronomical aid) John Zeigler www.johnstelescopes.com -----Original Message----- From: diveboss@xmission.com [mailto:diveboss@xmission.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:44 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] When lasers are outlawed,only outlaws will have lasers About the only way a person would be able to "look at stars" while using one of these would be from having someone whack them across the head for shining it in their eyes. ;) Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
note he was using it to "look at stars"(!):
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