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Tim Doucette is legally blind, yet he sees the stars better than most people. A childhood diagnosis of congenital cataracts forced doctors to remove Doucette's lenses and widen his pupils. Normal pupils adjust for the amount of light present, but Tim's are always open. Wide. He has to protect his eyes during the day, and is left with only about 10 percent of his sight, but at night...
After that surgery, just after he took the bandages off his eyes, he looked up and saw the Milky Way like almost no one has ever seen it before with their bare eyes. His wife Amanda bought him a telescope. Then, at a Royal Astronomical Society he was asked what he was seeing. He described a doughnut with a couple of little stars in the midde. He was told, no, not with that telescope. That's when things started to snowball.
Doucette is the founder of the Deep Sky Eye Observatory in Nova Scotia.