Tell that to audi, their tails are blinding and not only in the normal place but at higher places.
Tell that to audi, their tails are blinding and not only in the normal place but at higher places.
Wear glasses that are the complement to red. Cyan I assume.
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Yep, the one we have is tilted down so far as to the face being almost horizontal and it's "hot spot" is still visible 50 yds down the road.
Dark skies friendly lamps do exist but I've yet to find any to compete with the shed £10 cheapies...
I've had the opposite. Drivers who insist on driving on main beam when you are in front of them, but not very close. When I've been in my kit-car, letting them catch up has worked wonders - the body, including the rear panel, is mirror-finish stainless-steel!
SteveW
I can happily say that the PIR light on my garage (in my back garden), is angled so that the centre is quite close to the garage - both giving a "worklight" in front of the garage and keeping the beam below the tops of the 6' gates at the side of the house.
SteveW
I can happily say that our exterior lights are 2.5 watt (or very close), and timed to a pretty short period. Perfectly adequate for our normal purposes. (We do have four - front, two along the side, back.
Except I question their claim that there is no evidence that amber night driving spectacles improve vision on the road. I use amber clip-ons, and I find them very effective in reducing the glare of blueish HID and LED headlamps.
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I was talking about oncoming cars. The main beam may be dipped, but I get the blue spill just as they're passing.
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Perhaps they were deliberately dimmed to save money? My local streetlamps are switched off completely at 1am.
They are on all night here like in most of London, but dimmed after a certain time.
Sometimes the blueness is strong enough to make me double-check it is not an emergency vehicle.
I guess it all comes down to subjectivity. Perhaps your particular visual capabilities are helped and the same doesn't apply globally. I've never tried amber night driving specs as my specs cost enough already. I probably am unaware of how lights appear to people with perfect unassisted vision. FWIW, I have never seen the milky way in all it's glory other than in photos due to the simple fact that the smaller points of light are not visible with my prescription.
I can happily say that my exterior lights are not timed and are not used unless I am out at night or am actually sitting outside at night
They barely hit the drive, let alone the road. I have no neighbours
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Perhaps. I'll check at other times.
Hard to miss from somewhere like the Canaries. My astigmatism doubles point sources at night.
You can get glasses for astigmatism.
The OED defines the Milky Way as " The irregular, faintly luminous band that circles the night sky, now recognized as composed of billions of stars..." If someone claims to be able to see the individual stars in the Milky Way either (a) they don't know what it is or (b) they have /very/ big eyes.
In e.g. Africa you can see *some* of the individual stars. By definition they are close to us
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If you can resolve a star with your naked eye it is by the traditional definition I quoted /not/ part of the Milk Way. In order to include such stars you need to define the Milky Way as (a) all stars in the galactic plane or (b) our galaxy. I've not seen (a). OTOH (b) is a common second meaning now - as eg:
"The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye."
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