Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Lossless Audio

Re:Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Los... by mandmandam on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:40PM (#43488808)

I've been doing a bit of research on the limits of human vision today, as I was wondering if any ancient humans (say, at Newgrange) would ever have been able to discern the spiral of a galaxy with their naked eye...

According to what you're saying, I think it's just about possible. M51's spiral features are 20 arcseconds, and you can apparently resolve 15...

And turns out M51, the easiest spiral galaxy to view, would have been directly overhead Stonehenge (the best viewing position).

So... Might be somethin' for you to try, if you ever get somewhere extremely dark and perfectly clear?

M51: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22m51%22&t=ffab&atb=v340-1&iax=im...

Newgrange: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=newgrange+spirals&atb=v340-...

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Re:Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Los... by cududa on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:10PM (#43508964)

Can most people not see the sort of briefly appearing cloudiness/ cloudy streaks of light (idk how to describe it)/ galaxy arms in the sky, if you're in the middle of a forest/ with no light pollution??

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Re:Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Los... by mandmandam on Saturday March 29, 2025 @04:42PM (#43518547)

I think people can see the milky way in the right conditions alright.. We know from ancient records that people could see it as well.

As far as I can tell though, making out the actual spiral features of another galaxy is generally assumed to be impossible... And I don't think it actually is, for someone like yourself.

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