The effect of Whiskey on seeing

[el_draco]

Did an experiment tonight. Drank one double shot and went out and looked
Did a second experiment an hour later after two shots
DFid a tird expment an hor later afer thrtee shots

did s futh expt an hur latr aNE AFER fie shotsy

so many more sarts after los whicksey :)

[Atmos]

Presumably this post was written over the course of 8 hours as you'd gotten worse every line and sobered up kinda by the end.

You therefore actually wrote this yesterday and needed a day to completely sober up enough to push the "post" button.

<--- Should be a detective.

[Saturnine]

Ahhh ! The joys of an 12 year old , peat fired, single malt whiskey.
But only on cloudy nights, not anywhere near telescopes.

[xelasnave]

Did you get to observe many double stars?
Could you see the universe expanding...and contracting and expanding?

I actually sat outside for a while it was clear just my eyes ...real nice.
Alex

[pjphilli]

Yes Alex - too much alcohol does give double vision so the number of
observable stars double. This is similar to driving a car when intoxicated
(not these days of course) when single vision could be restored by closing one eye. Moderate intake of alcohol provides an effect similar to dithering of the eyeballs such that stars may appear clearer and the total effect is very
soothing.
Peter

[glend]

Double stars become quadruple stars!
I have to close my bad eye. Think i need an eye patch.

[JA]

As to "The effect of Whisky on seeing" question .....

I suspect that if it was delivered as an aerosol, that the aerosol cloud would locally affect the seeing as a sort of Rayleigh scattering, but if poured, say from a bottle in a long stream in to a mouth waiting below, that the affect on seeing would be minimal. :D:help:

Best
JA

[Merlin66]

I remember many years ago, back in Scotland, I was outside observing Jupiter....the neighbour and his friends rolled up a little worse for wear and asked "what the divil are you doing!!!"
I invited them over to look at Jupiter and said the two bright points visible were the moons of Jupiter.....
The first couple who looked said "Ohh Aye I can see those small Bu****rs"
the last, and obviously under the weather lady, when she looked said "Ohhhh but there's three of those things"
A wink to the others I said "Hmmmm - a bit late in the night for you..."
She staggered across to me and said "Sonny, hiccup, there's nothing wrong with me - it must be your crappy telescope"
I went back to the eyepiece to find a third moon had just appeared!!!

[Waxing_Gibbous]

You need many years of alcohol abuse under your belt before you can successfully drink and observe with reliable results. This isi not a game for amateurs and those without at least two liver biopsies should give it a miss.

[Regulus]

For this to be a valid experiment it needs to be reproducible, and I volunteer to check your science

:rofl:

[xstream]

Now pass me another dram of Limeburners please ;)

[el_draco]

I'll drink to that...

We are having the summer we missed... Magnificent days followed by night after night of glorious seeing. Its ridiculous how incredible the weather has been for the last week and there are at least another 4 days of it to go...

Can think of only a few things better than laying on a trampoline with a set of 15 X 70's under dark skies with a decent bottle of scotch... and a STRAW! :P

Did I mention, its clear as a bell out there with a visual limit of about 6.0+. I'm off to see how many multiple star systems I can find...

Slangevar :thumbsup:

[Andy01]

Great thread, very funny- I'm a bit of a Japanese whiskey fan lately- probably need a nice Tak FSQ to go with it now too. :thumbsup:

[AstralTraveller]

But what if the whiskey is in the OTA? SCT's and fracs could be sealed pretty easily, though not newts - especially truss tubes. Of course, if you don't want to splash out that much you could try a whiskey-spaced doublet.

[JA]

:D That would add a nice yellow hue to things, or if that offends, go for Gin, Vodka, Tequila, Rum ..... Sorry Whiskey drinkers

Best
JA

[Regulus]

I know! Short sleeve weather through the day, and beautiful nights. I think most people here have forgotten how little good weather we got before February.
I for one, am not complaining about the warmth, but I do miss the usual Autumn colours of Early April, though they're starting to happen around the NW now.

Trev

[Regulus]

The real problem here with whiskey separated optics, as opposed to oil, is having to re-align everything once you have gotten it out, and replaced it with water.

:cheers:

[AstralTraveller]

People use coloured filters to improve the view of planets. Perhaps someone could investigate to use of spirit filters on planetary detail. You can get various shades of yellow/brown from whiskey. If you need a stronger yellow try tequila and ouzo can be used as a neutral density filter for lunar observing. Winos like myself are probably limited to subtle yellow/green filtering from whites, though of course champagne isn't a good option. And if the next total lunar eclipse isn't red enough a bit of pinot noir in the light path could be just the thing.

[GeoffW1]

Hahaha

Well done there.

I recall doing much the same, and found that 100% of the stars up there were multiples, some 4, 6, or even 8 (octalsh?)

Cheers

[JA]

Heheheeee:D

That reminds me ....I bought a bottle of tequila recently, well MEZCAL actually. It was a salute to the past, when the custom was that if you drank the last glass in the bottle then you got to eat the worm !!! Except this time around there was a complimentary tiny bottle with the normal 700ml bottle with probably 30 or so worms in it. WORMS FOR EVERYONE !!!!

Best
JA

[Nebulous]

What excellent research. There should be a grant for that kind of work. :)

When I turned 70 last year I decided that I needed some new hobbies to sparkle up the declining years. I chose Whisky, Gin and Astronomy. It's exciting to know that I can combine two of them in such a scientific manner.

My contribution to science, in a similar vein, was to buy a breathalyser and test the difference between drinking whisky after and before food.

The methodology was similar to yours.

Day 1: Late afternoon, empty stomach. Drank a quick double shot, waited 20 minutes for absorption to take place and took a reading. Drank another quick double, waited a further 20 mins and took another reading. Drank a third quick double and waiting 20 mins and.... was then blowing 0.07 and officially too pissed to drive a car. Operating a ride-on lawnmower or telescope might have been tricky too. But I was still not staggering drunk, singing vulgar songs or offering to fight any man in the room - just very cheerful. It took a while to drop back below .05.

Day 2: I repeated the experiment after dinner. Food is said not to "soak up" or neutralise alcohol, but just to spread out the effect more evenly over a longer time. And that's what apparently happened. At the same stage I'd previously hit .07 I was only showing 0.04. It then slowly crept up to 0.05 and then took a couple of hours to drift back down to 0.03. I still didn't risk mowing the grass though. Left it for a few weeks just to be on the safe side.

I'm still awaiting a Nobel Prize for the research, but these things take time.

I'm currently giving my liver a break and my eyes a solid workout with my new toy - an inexpensive beginner telescope. Apparently I can achieve blurriness on no whiskies at all...

Cheers,

Chris

PS I never drink and drive a car. The experiment was just for fun and to try and get a handle on what the new hobby might be doing to what's left of my body.

[leon]

You guys blow me away, :lol: funny and very true.;)

Leon :thumbsup: