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Dowse Lagoon
Dowse Lagoon is a park and lake located in Sandgate, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane. It was given its name in 1975, and it is named for Thomas Dowse (Australian merchant), Thomas Dowse, a merchant and early settler of Brisbane. Before 1975, it was largely known as the "Second Lagoon". It was named as a Ramsar site in 1993. Dowse Lagoon was badly damaged by the 2000s Australian drought, which led to calls for its revitilisation. References Lakes of Queensland Sandgate, Queensland {{Brisbane-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binoculars ^ View Of Dowse Lagoon - Panoramio
Binoculars or field glasses are two refracting telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular vision) when viewing distant objects. Most binoculars are sized to be held using both hands, although sizes vary widely from opera glasses to large pedestal-mounted military models. Unlike a (monocular) telescope, binoculars give users a stereopsis, three-dimensional image: each eyepiece presents a slightly different image to each of the viewer's eyes and the parallax allows the visual cortex to generate an depth perception, impression of depth. Optical designs Galilean Almost from the invention of the telescope in the 17th century the advantages of mounting two of them side by side for binocular vision seems to have been explored. Most early binoculars used Galilean telescope, Galilean optics; that is, they used a convex lens, convex objective (optics), objective and a concave lens, concave eyepiece, eyep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
