2006-10-17 12:19:05 · 17 answers · asked by perfection 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Not very far. What you see is light particles that have left an object and struck your retina. So you are actually not seeing any distance at all. The image comes to you. Your site doesn't go to the image.
2006-10-17 13:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on whether you are short or long sighted. but a good sighted person can see as far as as the distance allowes, meaning , as soon as a hill or a mountain gets in the way, and if it is near, well that is the furthest distance anyone can see using only eyes.
2006-10-18 01:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest distance you can see with the unaided eye is the Andromedia Galaxy, which can be seen by a good eye on a dark night as a small smudge.
That is about 2.9 million light years away from us
2006-10-17 19:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is not a matter of seeing stuff with your eyes, but in-fact if a object is bright enough to reach your vision in the first place, for example if a distant star were bright enough, you would be ale to see from the edge of the Universe... NOW PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT DANNY BOY....
2006-10-17 19:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Infinity. Look into outer space at night. You are looking at stars and space related objects that are tens of hundreds of light years away. And if there was a star that was bright enough, you would be able to see it no matter how far away it was.
2006-10-17 19:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Hetzer 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A person with good eyes can see the galaxy Andromeda, Many light years distant.
2006-10-17 19:26:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
On a clear night you can see stars twinkling, so technically your eyes can detect light many millions of km's away. Remember you can see the moon on a clear night so that is automatically 300,000km+
2006-10-17 19:27:13 · answer #7 · answered by joanna s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the quasars (can't remember which one) is just visible to the naked eye. Based on red-shift, it is apparently about 11 billion light -years away, so that would take the record, I think.
2006-10-18 07:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Paul FB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can see Andromeda which is about 2 million light years away.
2006-10-18 12:50:31 · answer #9 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are blind, you can see with the naked eye, the sun which is approximately 93 millions miles away, with out the use of telescopes or binoculars. Is that far enough for you.?
2006-10-17 19:31:55 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋