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

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1 I well remember the occasion when he discovered a brightish nova , just about visible with the naked eye and easily seen with binoculars .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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