From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: March 11, 2009 8:11:51 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] OT - Dreaming the Moon

Hi group,

i'm reading and envying your discussions from my hospital room LOL.

Nothing really severe but since 7 days i'm here  because of a sudden hearing loss at the left hear.

Luckily I'm i'm responding well to the therapies and  and every night i watch at the Moon feeling a incredible wish to be at home with my scope.

I couldn't do any imaging of  the Moon since December 2008.

 On January and February the weather was always cloudy but some days ago, thanks  to the good forecast,  i planned a nice "March Observing Campaign"  inviting a friend of mine  with his young son to test the scope on the moon and saturn on Friday March 6.

Usually I never do plans but this time i dared ...

Result: on March 6 i was recovered while I never  was recovered in hospital before.

LESSON #1 : I will manage to  skip  further plannings!

Hopefully  tomorrow i''l be  back home but the moon will be too low on the horizon (i have a disturbing roof hiding the sky below 35°).

Cheers to all and have great imaging sessions...

Alberto

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For who loves technical details about my hearing loss  experience.

During this experience i discovered (again) that our body/brain can do everything.

I always thought that hearing loss was related to the AMPLITUDE of the audio waves but now  i discovered that even the FREQUENCY is an arbitrary perception of our brain.

During my worse phase my left ear could hear a frequency of 580Hz while the real sound emission was 440 Hz.

The frequency shift was not linear meaning that even a frequency of 300 hz was listened similar to 580 Hz.

Even a frequency of 500 Hz was listened similar to 580Hz.

A part of the lower spectrum was flattened and mixed .

As a result a spoken voice was listened like a distorted HAM radio voice or ROBOT voice.

Pretty interesting and absolutely unexpected phenomenon.

Nowadays  i hear the 320 Hz similar to 330 Hz.

That's not good for music hearing yet,  but it's a huge improvement!