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Bad Astronomy from New York TV
"Cousin Ricky" wrote in message om... Then the weathercaster, the bearer of bad news for New York astronomers, said that you wouldn't be able to see Mars through the clouds with the naked eye or with binoculars. But a telescope might do it. Really!?! I had no idea! All this time i was staying indoors on overcast nights... I remember looking at Saturn under broken clouds one night for about 5 minutes. At the end of which I thought that the quality of image had deteriorated a bit. Thinking it might be due to using the same eye for all that time, I had a look at the sky and was gobsmacked to see that clouds had rolled in and covered Saturn completely so that it was ionvisible to the naked eye. It was still distinctly visible through the scope even a few minutes later. It taught me 2 things, that you _can_ observe through clouds that the eye/brain is remarkably insensitive to gradual change - I was aware that the quality of the view had worsened, but I was completely unaware that the image brightness had been reduced so much. |
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