Re: Re[2]: your mail

HATHAWAY@stsci.edu
Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:08:14 -0500 (EST)

>>The pseudo 3-d effect seen through binocular telescopes is widely
... >Al Nagler confirms this. He said that the stereo effect is caused
>essentially by field curvature. Each eye gets a slightly different view
>because each intercepts a different part of the curve.

Hmmm. Sky & Tel May 1995 issue has a letter on page 8 on this very topic. "stereoscopic cues are caused by abberations in the optics. ... ordinary oculars ... present a curved image to each eye. When the eyes are not perfectly centered over the exit pupils, the curved images are seen from slightly different points of perspective, resulting in a 'three-dimensional image.' The effect in most pronounced in the least complex eyepieces..." This was by a R.A. Buchroeder of Tucson.

What if we had three eyes?