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bright and daylight
We live in the bright daylight of that great event ; ;
It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).
For 23 days it remains bright enough to be seen in daylight.
A third, much rarer type of photoreceptor, the photosensitive ganglion cell, is important for reflexive responses to bright daylight.
The cones respond to bright light and mediate high-resolution color vision during daylight illumination ( also called photopic vision ).
Alternative translations are ‘ long bright world ’ or ‘ land of abiding day ’ referring to the length and quality of the New Zealand daylight ( when compared to the shorter days found further north in Polynesia ).
Sunglasses allow better vision in bright daylight, and may protect against damage from high levels of ultraviolet light.
The frame is put out into daylight requiring a minute or two under a bright sun or about ten times this under an overcast sky.
The summer days are long and bright with about 17 hours of daylight while in the winter, the days are short and often quite dull.
At the start of this period, his subjects were still cityscapes inspired by the bright daylight of Mediterranean cities, but gradually he turned his attention to studies of cluttered storerooms, sometimes inhabited by mannequin-like hybrid figures.
Fewer than 10 percent of the light receptors in the eye receive the colored, high intensity light seen in bright light or daylight conditions.
This is not bright enough to diminish the darkness at night, though they would be visible in daylight ( assuming an Earth-normal atmosphere ).
They rapidly resume their bright yellow color with daylight.
For instance, a 1 percent camouflage may not be distinguishable from no camouflage under bright daylight.
The eyes are black in daylight, but glow bright emerald green when caught in a spotlight at night.
The eye takes approximately 20 – 30 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to complete darkness and become ten thousand to one million times more sensitive than at full daylight.
From February 25th through the 27th, observers reported that the comet was bright enough to study during full daylight.
The scene changes again, now to bright daylight and blue sky.
Light therapy or phototherapy ( classically referred to as heliotherapy ) consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using lasers, light-emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light, usually controlled with various devices.
The very bright scattering layer was seen in full daylight conditions, and was identified as the
Since methanol vapor is heavier than air, it will linger close to the ground or in a pit unless there is good ventilation, and if the concentration of methanol is above 6. 7 % in air it can be lit by a spark and will explode above 54 F / 12 C. Once ablaze, an undiluted methanol fire gives off very little visible light, making it potentially very hard to see the fire or even estimate its size in bright daylight, although in the vast majority of cases, existing pollutants or flammables in the fire ( such as tires or asphalt ) will color and enhance the visibility of the fire.
Despite the mast being shortened it can been seen in daylight on clear days from most areas close to and within the Lincolnshire Wolds and on clear nights its bright red aircraft warning lights can be very widely seen across much of Lincolnshire from as far north as the River Humber and Grimsby and from west of the county it can be seen clearly from both Lincoln, Gainsborough and Grantham and from the south of the county it can be seen clearly as far away as Spalding and Bourne and can also be very clearly seen in the east of the county as far away as Skegness, Mablethorpe and most areas along the Lincolnshire Coast.
The blade is heated to red heat — as observed in an indoor room in average Autumn – Spring daylight ( not bright ) — and immediately quenched rapidly in water, until completely cool to safely handle with hands.

bright and mind
and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.
This was the bright summer day when the solitary Boojum line came into his mind.
His bright and creative mind impressed the local teachers and priests, and he was encouraged to seek higher education.
While the vernal equinox has moved to Pisces since then due to precession of the equinoxes, Hamal has remained in mind as a bright star near what was apparently an important place when people first studied the night sky.
" Not everything on Keats's mind at the time was bright ; the poet knew in September that he would have to finally abandon Hyperion.
: 心如明鏡臺 。 The mind a standing mirror bright.
She is vain, self-centered, somewhat spoiled, can be insecure, and has an intelligent, bright mind.
Hubert is a Germanic given name, from hug " mind " and beraht " bright ".
" His nickname comes from how his parents think he is " bright as a button "; after one conversation, the Scarecrow hypothesizes that the button they had in mind might have been covered with dull cloth.
John Maynard Smith has said " A man called Olaf Stapledon was a marvellous predictor who wrote science fiction books that I read when I was 16 and that completely blew my mind ; and Arthur C. Clarke put his finger on quite a number of bright thoughts.
You stand in a throng of multifleshed being, mind avatared in all its matter, on a broad avenue winding through a city of blue trees with bright red foliage and living buildings growing from the soil in a multitude of forms.
Mind you, this is true only for those who blazed once like bright stars in the firmament, but for the rest, as soon as a few clods of earth cover their corpses, they are ' out of sight, out of mind.
: Meanwhile the moon of our mind shines bright.
While chanting, keep your mind positive and sound bright.
The bright colours that normally swirl around a faradhi become dark as the shadows of his or her own mind encroach, ready to consume the mind.

bright and would
Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).
Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.
Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.
Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.
The wave nature of light causes the light waves passing through the two slits to interfere, producing bright and dark bands on the screen — a result that would not be expected if light consisted strictly of particles.
However, there would be some bright spots that would prove to be good investments in the near future.
From 2003 through 2008, the New England Patriots had a " light " jersey ( their alternate, a bright metallic silver ) that isn't white in which the other team would wear their colored, or " dark " jerseys against them since the third jersey rule was implemented in the NFL in 2002.
The paradox is that a static, infinitely old universe with an infinite number of stars distributed in an infinitely large space would be bright rather than dark.
And with infinitely many shells there would be a bright night sky.
In general relativity theory, it is still possible for the paradox to hold in a finite universe: though the sky would not be infinitely bright, every point in the sky would still be like the surface of a star.
As a result it would show a disc with diameter of about one arcsecond and an apparent magnitude of between 12 and 13 — bright enough to be spotted.
Taken at a sprightly pace, with a bright, slowly building big band arrangement and a joyous saxophone solo by Phil Woods, it would seem at cross purposes with the material, but Tormé gives a suitably wry reading which highlights the absurdity happening around him.
Edmund Halley ( 1720 ) and Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux ( 1744 ) noted independently that the assumption of an infinite space filled uniformly with stars would lead to the prediction that the nighttime sky would be as bright as the sun itself ; this became known as Olbers ' paradox in the 19th century.
" There was a new subculture of extremely bright kids developing into what would become known as hackers ," said Schwartz.
Though he did not call them noble, Dr. Rae, who had lived among the Inuit, defended them as “ dutiful ” and “ a bright example to the most civilized people ”, comparing them favorably with the undisciplined crew of the Franklin expedition, whom he suggested were ill treated and " would have mutinied under privation ", and moreover with the lower classes in England or Scotland generally.
Poisson thought that he had found a flaw when he argued that a consequence of Fresnel ’ s theory was that there would exist an on-axis bright spot in the shadow of a circular obstacle, where there should be complete darkness according to the particle-theory of light.
From Jupiter's surface — or rather, from just above its cloudtops — Amalthea would appear very bright, shining with a magnitude of − 4. 7, similar to that of Venus from Earth.
Though Jupiter would appear 900 times brighter than the full moon, its light would be spread over an area some 8500 times greater and it would not look as bright per surface unit.

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