Re: [ATM] Lasix and better viewing

[Grumpa1 <jjdubois@insightbb.com>]

Joe wrote:
> On A Similar topic
>
> Cataracts,
>
> Before and aster,, thoughts,
>
> What was your eyesight like before the onset..  clarity,, crispness in 
> details like for lunar and planetary observing..
>
> saw ee  as deep sky faint fuzzballs,,  how well did you see them..  etc.
>
>
> Then the cataracts came in and astronomy of  all kinds were nearly 
> impossible.  doctors have been pushing there they take pout the old lez 
> and replace it with a nre rubber version  and i should again have 20/20 
> or better version again,
>
> who all here has done this,, and what did it do for you?
>
> did it bring the love of your live back to you Astronomy.  or is she 
> still hopelessly in three foggy distance.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> Mike Shuken wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone here had their eyes corrected with Lasix or a similar surgery?
>>
>> I was wondering how much it improved your telescope viewing 
>> experience.  Obviously it's nice not to have to press your eye 
>> glasses up to the focuser or tweek it every time you switch viewers, 
>> but do the stars seem, I don't know, sharper?  Less halos or those 
>> lines that shoot off the sides (I forget what they are called)?
>>
>> Curiously,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>     
> _______________________________________________
> ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/
>
>   
I had my cataracts removed 15 months ago.  In my case the correction was 
to 20/20 vision with much reduced astigmatism.  I now live without 
glasses, except for reading, for the first time since 8 years old.

The difference for me was like looking through a dark yellow filter that 
had been fogged up before and clear glass after.  Through the eyepiece I 
could see at least 1 and a half magnitudes fainter after.

YMMV and the surgery does have risks.  I don't think it should be done 
until it is necessary.  I determined that it was necessary when I could 
no longer drive at night.  Prior to the surgery I invested in larger and 
larger scopes to try to maintain my viewing.

I was told that my replacement lenses are silicone.

Jule J. DuBois at 42N 89.6W
_______________________________________________
ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/