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Finally found time to go observing tonight, and everytime I look at something bright, like Saturn, there is this one spot in my field of vision that makes everything go blurry.

I can actually see this spot when I just point at a blank patch of sky. It is centred on my vision and appears darker than the background (I live in the suburbs of Sydney so blank sky glows gently).

First I thought it was my EP, so I took it in doors and looked through it at a lamp. The patch is there, and doesn't rotate with the EP, ergo it isn't in the EP. It looks like those worm-esque things you sometimes see in your vision, except it is much bigger and net-like in appearance. Both eyes have it, left worst than the right.

I am pretty sure it is cataracts or something like it. I am only 26, but I had radiation therapy when I was 21 and they warned something like this might happen... the price of beating cancer.

So this sucks, and I am posting here in the hopes someone will read my rambling above and can hit me over the head with "stupid, we all have that" (unlikely) or something similar so I can ease myself of the thought of undergoing more surgery (already had both hips replaced and scheduled for wisdom teeth in July).

Cheers,
Steve