I just spent another few hours observing Mars and got philosophical. (Uh-oh). Anyway, I was trying out my new Sirius Optics Mars filter and something came into focus. Besides Mars. What came into focus was the realization that 'seeing' is different than 'looking.' To explain, by seeing, I mean there is an active mental participation by the 'see-er', while looking is more passive, more merely a physical act.
When I was learning to interpret x-rays a lecturer I went to summoned up one obscure view (he used slides of x-rays) by saying, "Sometimes you need to hallucinate a little bit to see it." Sounds funny or silly, but if you have an idea of what you think you should be seeing and mentally compare it, imagination wise, with what you are looking at it helps you to see it.
Anyway, the detail on Mars is currently pretty faint with my C8, but if I "see" in an active fashion, and hallucinate, imagine, or whatever, then it helps me recognize a little more detail that becomes apparent for an brief moment, then fades.
When I was learning to interpret x-rays a lecturer I went to summoned up one obscure view (he used slides of x-rays) by saying, "Sometimes you need to hallucinate a little bit to see it." Sounds funny or silly, but if you have an idea of what you think you should be seeing and mentally compare it, imagination wise, with what you are looking at it helps you to see it.
Anyway, the detail on Mars is currently pretty faint with my C8, but if I "see" in an active fashion, and hallucinate, imagine, or whatever, then it helps me recognize a little more detail that becomes apparent for an brief moment, then fades.
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