Example sentences of "with the naked eye and " in BNC.

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1 The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale .
2 I well remember the occasion when he discovered a brightish nova , just about visible with the naked eye and easily seen with binoculars .
3 Præsepe , nicknamed the Beehive , is one of the finest clusters of its type ; it is easily visible with the naked eye and is well seen with × 7 binoculars , while with × 12 and × 20 it is truly glorious .
4 There is however one splendid open cluster , M41 , which is easily visible with the naked eye and is resolvable with × 20 binoculars ; various individual stars can be seen with lower magnifications .
5 Pollux is a K-type star , whose orange colour is noticeable with the naked eye and unmistakable in binoculars ; Castor is white , and is an interesting multiple system , though binoculars show it as single .
6 L2 Puppis is a semi-regular variable with a range of from 3.4 to 6.2 , so that it is almost always visible with the naked eye and is well within binocular range even at minimum ; it is of type M , and clearly orange .
7 In the same region is another wide pair , Mu , separable with the naked eye and very easy with × 7 ; the magnitudes are 3.0 and 3.6 .
8 It has a period of 357 days , and at minimum is so faint that large telescopes are needed to show it , but at maximum it has been known to rise to 5.7 , and is then just visible with the naked eye and very easy in binoculars .
9 The fourth wall was constructed of rows of teak slats , incorporated into which were two seamless sliding doors , impossible to detect with the naked eye and only capable of being activated by miniature sonic transmitters .
10 They are beyond the visible spectrum but we do not have to make our observations with the naked eye and there are ways in which y-rays can be detected to form an image pattern .
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