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- From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Frosty the telescope
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:45 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- In article <1993Jan22.211557.11926@craycos.com>, jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes...
- >I've found frosting of eyepieces to be a problem on cold nights also.
- >You can un-fog an eyepiece by wrapping your hand around the barrel for
- >a few minutes, although you have to take off your glove for this and
- >will wind up with a cold hand instead :-). Also, breathing on a cold
- >eyepiece is a real bad idea -- breath condenses really well on the
- >lens surface, and takes forever to clear up.
-
- I find that eyepiexes fog up by looking through them! I think it is the
- moisture coming from my eye. Often standing up straight for half a minute
- lets it clear up; sometimes I lift out the eyepiece, hold the barrel in my
- fist, and wave it around.
-