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    Default Which eye do you use for viewing?



    I am lefty for some reason. Perhaps because it's easier to close my right by itself than my left. Although, lately I have just been covering up my right eye with my hand to try to relax my gaze.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    I use my right, but I think its prob best if you keep both eyes open and just cover up the one you are not viewing with so you dont cause your viewing eye to squint.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    Both, actually because I use binos. If I have the opportunity to use a scope, it's the right eye.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    I use both, one at a time. I like to think that by alternating, I am preventing one eye from getting fatigued.
    I usually start off with the right eye, however, when I first start viewing. And for my binos both, just like Simona.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    Both for binos. Most likely my right eye when I finally setup my new scope.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    I don't think my left eye has ever looked through a telescope eyepiece.

    When you look through a corrector plate you can see all the nice reflections inside and use both eyes. I recommend that.


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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    I use my right eye almost exclusively. I'll use my left for the finder if the orientation makes using the right eye impossible (Newt on an EQ mount, with a straight finder!), but it feels weird.

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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    I use my left eye 90% of the time. Though I am right-handed, my left eye has always been dominant. I discovered this shooting target rifles.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    Right eye mainly, except when using the binoviewers.
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    Default Re: Which eye do you use for viewing?

    I am strongly left eye dominant. I have tried to use my right eye before and cannot get it to work.

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