magnification
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Dr Bloomer says "significant sunspot activity" is visible with solar filtering but that you need magnification when viewing with the naked eye.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
So you have no field of vision, but you have incredible magnification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The researchers discovered several pitfalls in calibrating the magnification of cryogenic optical microscopes, which tend to have worse image distortion than microscopes operating at room temperature.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
Josh Bouganim, a software engineer, proposed examining both cards under 200x magnification to see if the threads in the swatches matched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Galileo’s first telescope had a usable magnification of 8x; by the beginning of 1610 he had managed to produce one that had a magnification of 3 ox and he had begun to explore the heavens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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