[kinetic (Steve)]

Hi,

For want of a better term,
I was wondering what are people's experiences with using both
or only one favourite eye at the eyepiece?

Since hitting my 40s and suddenly having the onset of the typical
age related decline in eyesight, I no longer can take my eyesight for
granted like I used to.

I notice little things, that never before bothered me.
One of them is, I always had a favourite eye at the eyepiece.
My right eye could see the best detail on a live view of Jupiter or
Saturn, my left eye was like the lame dicky knee.
It's like the connection between the brain and my right eye was better
tuned or trained, over a lifetime, to work better.
Either that or my left eye was just slightly deficient in some way.
I always had (up to my 40s) 20/20 vision and never needed glasses.

I remember Dr Fred Hollows once saying that after thousands of years
being trained and evolving, the Australian full blood aborigine had better
eyesight than the white settler.
This, he said, was not only because of better health/diet, but because
of the cognitive connection between eye and brain.
They needed their eyesight for survival etc....

This got me thinking that maybe some people can use both eyeballs
just as good as each other at the eyepiece?

I certainly can't, and never could.

Any thoughts or experiences?

regards,
Steve B.