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How to See – Averted Vision and Dark Adaptation

December 20, 2017 by Brian Ventrudo Filed Under: Astronomy for Beginners

The structure of the retina showing rods, cones, and nerve cells. Credit: OpenStax College/Wikipedia.

You can spend thousands of dollars on a big, advanced telescope, hundreds more on the best eyepieces money can buy, and still not see much of anything at all. Unless,  that is, you know you to extract maximum light and detail with your eye. There are two concepts every stargazer should know to get the best visual views: averted vision and dark adaptation. Here’s how it all works… [Read more…] about How to See – Averted Vision and Dark Adaptation

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Filed Under: Astronomy for Beginners beginners, dark adaptation, night vision

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