Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’
Wide Field
What type of mirror is best for use as a rear-vison mirror with a wide field of view?
I’m thinking Plane, concave, convex, that sort of thing?
Convex mirror because image will always be erect and small for a wide view.
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NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – WISE
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American Tune $10.20 Eva Cassidy fans surely feel something akin to relief when another cache of tapes is opened for release. The singer’s 1996 death at the age of 33, after all, rendered her output finite in the saddest and most frustrating way. American Tune’s modus operandi is similar to previous Cassidy CDs in its mix of standard repertoire (here, everything from “Yesterday” to “God Bless the Child” and Ray Charle… |
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A Portrait $10.37 … |
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…pain, pleasure, fear and opera $9.99 What’s with the title? Consider this: six immensely talented musicians including a guitarist who is a masterful cellist, an insanely good drummer who is a piano prodigy, a violin player who plays baritone saxophone & harmonica, a trumpet player with the range of big sky country, a reed man with the modern sensibilities of a John Ellis and the historical perspective of Roland Kirk, and a bass pla… |
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Picnic (Widescreen) [VHS] $6.00 William Holden is the hunky drifter who rides the rails into a small Midwest town with dreams of landing a “respectable” job with his rich college buddy (Cliff Robertson). Kim Novak is the small-town beauty queen engaged to Robertson who falls for the cocky dreamer, as do repressed schoolmarm spinster Rosalind Russell and Novak’s tomboyish kid sister Susan Strasberg. Their unleashed passions reach… |
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Eyes Wide Shut [VHS] $0.18 It was inevitable that Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut would be the most misunderstood film of 1999. Kubrick died four months prior to its release, and there was no end to speculation how much he would have tinkered with the picture, changed it, “fixed” it. We’ll never know. But even without the haunting enigma of the director’s death–and its eerie echo/anticipation in the scene when Dr. Bill Ha… |
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Eyes Wide Shut [VHS] $4.79 It was inevitable that Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut would be the most misunderstood film of 1999. Kubrick died four months prior to its release, and there was no end to speculation how much he would have tinkered with the picture, changed it, “fixed” it. We’ll never know. But even without the haunting enigma of the director’s death–and its eerie echo/anticipation in the scene when Dr. Bill Ha… |
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Lutron 822-A Fully Digital EMF Meter (Wide Range, High Resolution) $62.19 Rugged, Compact, & Lightweight Magnetic Field Meter Couldn’t be easier to use, just turn it on and get accurate reliable readings. Perfect for situations needing high resolution measurements of AC magnetic fields without spending a lot of money. Large LCD display reads 0.1 -199.9 mG over the ELF range of 30 – 400 Hz. Provides readout in both mG and microTesla. Calibrated to within 4% ±3 digits … |
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Logitech Alert Security Camera … |
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Winchester 22-41206 Large Bowie Knife with Sheath $18.54 With a curved point, clip point, and notch near the handle, the Winchester 22-41206 Large Bowie Knife has all the features of a true Bowie. It is both well-priced and well-manufactured with full tang construction and a finger grooved wood handle, and it includes a ballistic nylon sheath with two retaining straps.Winchester 22-41206Large Bowie Knife with SheathAt a Glance:Stainless steel blade is c… |
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Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) $6.54 The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for bestpicture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him f… |
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