Cosmic Vision: Attentive Eyes

Well-trained eyes can be remarkably useful for capturing light curves of evolving objects in the cosmos, even contributing to modern research programmes. This lecture will consider how stargazing with imperfect, non-linear human eyes can accomplish such a feat, and the important contributions that this makes to elucidating the phenomena of nova detonations in our galaxy. A lecture by Katherine Blundell 28 October The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from t...