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Old 12-07-2020, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Stonius View Post
I'd be curious if anyone's tried this. And whether the optics of the human eye hold up when the pupil has been artificially widened. It may be that you get more photons, but the details are blurred.
Many years ago a friend of mine somehow got hold of some Atropine and tested whether the resultant pupil dilation assisted in the observation of dim objects.

The answer is no. It caused him to have blurred vision in that eye.
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