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by SometimeStarviewer
Sat May 21, 2016 12:18 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: 3D Mercury Transit (2016 May 20)
Replies: 26
Views: 4154

Re: APOD: 3D Mercury Transit (2016 May 20)

A quick way to check whether the images are reversed is to mentally consider the line of sight from each eye. Lines drawn from your eye through Mercury to the Sun's surface will intercept that surface farther to the left for the right eye and farther to the right for the left eye. The eye to the rig...
by SometimeStarviewer
Fri May 20, 2016 6:34 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: 3D Mercury Transit (2016 May 20)
Replies: 26
Views: 4154

Re: APOD: 3D Mercury Transit (2016 May 20)

By my eyes, the left and right images are reversed in this image. I used a graphics program to exchange the left and right images, and the 3D effect appeared. (Either that, or my optic nerves have reversed themselves!)