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Old 26-03-2007, 11:24 AM
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Nice shot Scott.

Those yellow stars remind me of one of a rare night at Ilford in 2002, where we had Omega Centauri overhead , viewing with a 20" binocular with twin 22mm Nagler Type 4's. Because of the `chromatic stereopsis ' the cluster looked completely 3 dimensional, and my breath was taken away. I just didn't even recognise the cluster though I'd seen it so many times before. You could see three dimensional voids weaving away and there were red and yellow stars scattered throughout. Binocsopes really enhance color perception in my experience.

( Chromatic Stereopsis is a 3 dimensional effect you get in Binoscopes where Red stars appear closer because the eye is more biased towards red when you focus up close due to chromatic aberration in the eye which your brain filter out mostly )
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