> Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I have read that an owl's eyes are around 100 times
> as sensitive to light
> as the average human's (a cat's are 6 times as
> sensitive), so I made up a
> series of charts of the area around the
> constellation Orion showing what it
> would look like to each of those (based only on the
> sensitivity) Since I
> can't reproduce them here, let me just say that
> while there are about 6,000
> stars over the entire celestial sphere which are
> visible to the average
> human, with a cat's sensitivity it could see over
> 40,000 stars, and an owl
> should be able to see in excess of 1 million stars.
Wow! That would make the night sky spectacular! And
just think of all the cool new constellations you'd
get to name if you could see them...
Debbi
Running Mouse, Mouse Frozen In Fear, My Shadow
Descends... Maru ;)
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