Physics – Light and Lenses: Lenses and Optical instruments

This is the 5th lesson in the series, “Light and Lenses.” It describes how microscopes, binoculars, and refracting telescopes magnify objects. Source: Mindset Network

The Star Party – How Telescopes Work – Ways to Gather Light

www.telescope.com Inside the optical tube with lenses and mirrors; an episode of “The Star Party,” a video guide to amateur astronomy from the crew of Orion Telescopes & Binoculars. Visit http to find high quality products for amateur astronomers.

See London In A Different Light

London is a major tourist destination for many visitors to the UK and offers some popular well known tourist attractions such as the London Eye, Madame Tussauds, The London Dungeon and many more. However many visitors miss out on the best bits of the city so please read on for some hidden London gems that [...]

How does light travel through Binoculars?

I got a science assessment, and i need to know how light travels through binoculars, the absorption, refraction, reflection and scattering of light which occurs through binoculars etc. How optical illusions are caused due to refraction and reflection; the concave and convex lenses etc spectrum, colours and things like that.
thanks for the help!

orange ball of light

on 30/07/08 i was in my garden looking at the stars, when this ball of orange light went across the sky. I rushed inside to grab my phone and did a blue peter job and stuck it to my binoculars and started recording. As it was a rush job i was not able to get [...]