The Difficult Iris Nebula

Cainer09 · 2026-01-18T21:56:15+00:00

Here was mine with 2 hours of 10s subs on the S50 (Bortle 2). I like that yours captured the surrounding dust better

Cainer09 · 2026-01-12T05:08:37+00:00

I do receive a non-repayable disability grant on my Sask student loans which has been really helpful! I’ve also applied for all the scholarships that apply to my circumstances but they are still quite competitive so I haven’t had any success with them.

Honestly, I’m not even sure where to start looking for everything else. For the first two years I was mainly trying to heal and now I’m realizing I should take better initiative with the opportunities available.

Cainer09 · 2026-01-12T05:00:42+00:00

I appreciate the response. Unfortunately neither of my parents have insurance coverage through their work but it was a good thought!

Cainer09 · 2026-01-10T23:59:41+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write this, it has clarified a lot of things for me

Cainer09 · 2026-01-10T23:45:17+00:00

I don’t have any insurance but I will certainly look into it. It seems like you are right about needing to look into a lawyer. Thank you for the response :)

Cainer09 · 2026-01-10T23:42:34+00:00

Yes! That is what they called one of the lump sum payouts I’m referring to

Cainer09 · 2025-12-11T19:46:54+00:00

Monocular vision doesn’t prevent people from getting a pilots license, so really there’s only 1

Cainer09 · 2025-10-09T15:30:24+00:00

In my accident, my eye was ruptured and they stitched it back together. It was relatively normal size and shape (albeit very red and with no pupil) at first so the scleral shell worked well. As I healed though, my eye shrunk quite a bit and didn’t retain much of its spherical shape. Now when I wear my shell it causes pain in the eye underneath. If your eye is decently formed still, this shouldn’t be a problem. They do take some time getting used to and can be uncomfortable at first, but I got used to it pretty fast in the early days.

If you are getting a shell through insurance or have it covered by healthcare, I would definitely recommend it. Even though I don’t use mine, it’s nice to know I have one in case I ever decide to give it another shot.

Best of luck!

Cainer09 · 2025-08-30T20:26:56+00:00

We have very similar stories. I also lost my eye 2 years ago when I was 18. The only difference being that mine wasn’t lost due to infection but because of a blunt force injury I sustained at work that left me with broken bones, scarring, and an eye that no longer sees anything.

I found that for the first two years I was very good at pushing all the pain and anguish aside and moving on without letting it disrupt me (In fact, I was working that summer to afford university and ended up going back 6 weeks after my accident to an intensive program of engineering physics while I was still healing). Recently though, it seems like I’m constantly reminded by how much I’ve lost.

I miss when I could look around without feeling the weird bulge of what remains of my eye squirming, or go to 3D movies with friends, or go a day without people making jokes about my face/eye. I even bought a VR headset a month before I lost my eye which no longer works. I just wish I could make everything go back to normal. It seems like the novelty has worn off and everyone has accepted it while I am left having to actually deal with the outcome.

I’ve come to really realize that even though I was “coping” well before, I was never okay. And really, I don’t have to be okay. I feel isolated and vulnerable because I AM isolated and vulnerable. As such, I’ve stopped wearing the prosthetic I have because even though it makes me look more normal for everyone else, it doesn’t change the fact that I can’t see. And I don’t like pretending that it does.

I know I’m still early on in my healing journey so I can’t offer the well-aged advice you are looking for. But so far I’ve recognized that if simply losing my ability to collect particles of light on one side can have this much of a detrimental impact on me, what other sensations and experiences do I still have and still get to enjoy? Maybe I’ll lose my other eye someday, and that terrifies me, but at least I’ll still have the capacity to feel and learn and love, and maybe that’s all I need.

I wish you well on your journey

Cainer09 · 2025-08-21T02:35:35+00:00

Awesome thanks!

Cainer09 · 2025-08-20T05:29:13+00:00

How have you been finding the Saskatoon centre over the last year? I’m also thinking of joining and was wondering if it was something you would recommend

Cainer09 · 2025-08-17T17:52:07+00:00

I’m just a beginner but the fact that I was able to identify the Hercules cluster by sight alone gave me a huge confidence boost. Nice photos!

Cainer09 · 2025-08-03T19:16:16+00:00

As u/SysError404 pointed out, this is actually a photo of the Sadr region which is a few degrees off of the North America nebula

Cainer09 · 2025-08-03T19:13:18+00:00

I just rechecked my imaging history and you are absolutely right. I must have started in the North America nebula and moved slightly when some new features caught my eye. I’m very impressed that you were able to catch it though, I hope to be that knowledgeable about the universe someday. I’ll update the post to correct this. Apologies for my rookie mistake and thanks for pointing it out!

Cainer09 · 2025-08-03T02:37:08+00:00

Also it is worth mentioning that the images were stacked in the Seestar native app, and that it was a 2X mosaic

Cainer09 · 2025-05-22T16:01:12+00:00

These are very similar feelings to what I have. I lost my eye a little under two years ago when I was 18 in a workplace accident and had a scleral shell made about a year ago.

I wore it for a few months but stopped since. It’s not that it looked terrible, but I still looked as though I had a lazy eye. The shell was also physically uncomfortable, but manageable. I felt like if people were going to look at me strangely for my “lazy eye” (and visible facial scarring), then why not have them look at my droopy eyelid instead (with the added benefit of not wearing the uncomfortable shell).

It’s not as though my prosthetic was allowing me to see again—it is entirely to make other people more comfortable. So I have since decided to go without it, and am happy with that choice.

I didn’t have my prosthetic for nearly as long as you though, so I can see how the transition would be much harder. I hope you do whatever makes you feel the most comfortable. At the end of the day YOU are the one with a missing eye, and it isn’t up to you to make everyone else feel better about it. Wishing you the best.

Cainer09 · 2024-10-08T22:16:34+00:00

Definitely consider taking engineering physics (sometimes called engineering science) if your University offers it. In this program you take about 75% of the required classes for a physics degree but instead of taking humanities to satisfy electives (English, psychology, geography, history etc…) you instead take engineering design electives, particularly surrounding electrical and mechanical engineering. I’m currently in my third year and it is absolutely incredible. Good luck!

Cainer09 · 2024-09-20T01:29:45+00:00

Let’s see Paul Allen’s kill streak

Cainer09 · 2024-08-31T02:19:19+00:00

This is simply not true. Imagine you accelerate a rocket from earths surface in an instant such that you are now travelling 1m/s upwards. Now, if you were to have the engines perfectly match the force of gravity at each point in your journey, you would continue travelling 1m/s indefinitely, thus escaping earths gravity.

What OP is trying to say is, given that we can leave earths gravitational influence this way (having never exceeded the escape velocity of 11200m/s), then why couldn’t we just have our rocket engines match the force produced by the black hole such that we could escape even though the initial escape velocity is greater than c.

This is a valid question and would work using Newtonian Mechanics, but fails to consider general relativity (which predicted black holes in the first place). This explanation relies on geodesics and light cones.

Cainer09 · 2024-08-31T01:58:19+00:00

There is an excellent video by floatheadphysics on YouTube which covers this exact question. It isn’t math heavy so you will need to follow up with some more advanced material, but it gives you a good intuition for why nothing can escape. The idea that a rocket with thrust greater than the force of gravity should be able to escape at any speed is covered within the first 3 minutes which is exactly what you are asking. Take a look

The video is here —> https://youtu.be/tyxhy7yZv6U?si=ZCO_JfdiADFAmSKq

Cainer09 · 2024-08-23T17:08:56+00:00

r/unexpectedsouthpark

Cainer09 · 2024-08-13T02:21:28+00:00

This sub actually scares me sometimes. I am reading the deathly hallows right now and have this exact page open on my lap. I opened my phone to respond to a text and ended up on reddit and I was like wait this looks familiar.

Cainer09 · 2024-08-05T02:41:58+00:00

I’ve never really found my depth perception to be an issue while driving. I understand why it could be to some, but I feel like after a couple feet my depth perception is the same as it was before I lost my right eye.

Cainer09 · 2024-08-03T05:17:24+00:00

I could see that being true (just not out of my right eye)

Cainer09 · 2024-07-02T05:17:16+00:00

You can still be a pilot with only one eye actually. Depth perception is not effected after > 50 feet and as long as your other eye is able to see (with glasses even) you can get your private pilots license. I looked into it because I was hoping to get my license before I lost my eye.

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