And yes for anyone wondering, this was a real experiment! People actually did it! (The seal's name was Nick.) As it turned out Nick could see lots of stars, although not quite as many as our eyes can.
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this figure I just encountered in a scientific paper has split my entire day into the Before and the Afterpic.twitter.com/j8bj7299CD
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Anyway if you, like me, are in awe of this "seal telescope" (the paper's words, not mine) you can learn more about this and related stuff in a story I am writing. Stay tuned.
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Oh and for anyone who must know more now and cannot wait, here you go: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2005.tb01257.x ….
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Here's the link to the paper, for interested parties : http://www.beamreach.org/research/sealnightsight.pdf …
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Did a seal write it?
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Nick should definitely have been a co-author.
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This sentence "The IRAF reduction-package for astronomical images (National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tuscon, AZ) was used for data analysis" is exactly what it needed to make it perfect.
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Yep, the worst part is that the seal had to learn IRAF for this too.
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This is both amazing and something I’d expect to see from
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