Sentences with phrase «naked eye observations»

The oldest - known map of the moon from naked eye observations, drawn by English physician and physicist William Gilbert and not published until 1651 in his De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova (New Sublunary Philosophy of the World).

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Astronomers based their analysis of comet Lovejoy, published last Friday in Science Advances, on observations made in January when the comet passed so close to the sun it could be seen with the naked eye.

Though the roots of evolutionary biology can be found in field work and close observation, today, the field is deeply tied to computing, since the scale of genetic material — tiny but voluminous — can not be viewed with the naked eye or put in order by an individual.

The merger events give rise to the observation of short light flashes, which can actually be observed by the naked eye.

Observations made by Hubble in these otherwise «invisible» wavelengths have been colorized in order to create a more complete depiction of the intricate and beautiful spiral galaxy, resulting in a view that surpasses anything that we could hope to see with the limited capabilities of the naked eye.

We discuss the East Asian naked - eye sunspot observations, the telescopic solar observations, the fraction of sunspot active days, the latitudinal extent of sunspot positions, auroral sightings at high latitudes, cosmogenic radionuclide data as well as solar eclipse observations for that period.