eyes are good

Visited my eye doctor today for a full check up. Overall: A-OK.

Part of the reason I went was because in the last year my close-up vision has deteriorated. I'm not surprised, at 42 years of age. I need now or will need soon bifocal glasses. It's becoming a point of frustration with astronomy sessions...

It turns out my distance vision is improving! Huh. I just assumed it would get continuously worse. But it's improved slightly. Which means my regular eyeglasses are now too strong. Which is exacerbating my close-up problems. So, now lenses and frames are on order.

My doc says that my close-up vision is OK and does not yet merit bifocal lenses. Unless, he said, I'm trying to read my email while driving my car... (Funny in joke there as he is, like me, an advanced high-performance driving instructor.) Ah, no!

So, overall, that's good. In the meantime, I'll continue to remove my eyeglasses for close up work.

That said, I think I will have a problem if I'm telescoping and wearing my contact lenses. But then, if I have a "weaker" prescription, it won't be as much out of focus. Or I can get reading glasses to negate the contacts...

During my tests, the doc put that yellow anaesthetic and then clear fluid to cause dilation. I remembered to ask him to measure my pupil diameter then. And I was thrilled to hear him say 7.5 mm. Woo hoo. Good pupil size (under drugs) for astronomy!