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The scale ranges from Class 1, the darkest skies available on Earth, through to Class 9, inner-city skies. It gives several criteria for each level beyond naked-eye limiting magnitude (NELM). [1] The accuracy and utility of the scale have been questioned in 2014 research. [2] [why?] The table summarizes Bortle's descriptions of the classes. For ...
John E. Bortle is an American amateur astronomer. He is best known for creating the Bortle scale to quantify the darkness of the night sky. Bortle has made a special study of comets. He has recorded thousands of observations relating to more than 300 comets. From 1977 until 1994 he authored the monthly '"Comet Digest" in Sky and Telescope magazine.
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Calamity James, a British comic book character from The Beano; Calamity Jane, a 1953 film based on the person; Calamity Town, a 1942 novel by Ellery Queen; The Calamity, a central plot point for the 2011 video game Bastion; Calamity, a mod for the 2011 video game Terraria "Calamity", a song by Zayn from his 2021 album Nobody Is Listening
Genesis trees: Trees located in the world of Legaia from the video game Legend of Legaia. They can keep a large area free of the Mist. They can keep a large area free of the Mist. Laganaphyllis simnovorii : A carnivorous cow-like plant found in The Sims series of games, commonly known as the Cowplant.
Calamites is a genus of extinct arborescent (tree-like) horsetails to which the modern horsetails (genus Equisetum) are closely related. [1] Unlike their herbaceous modern cousins, these plants were medium-sized trees, growing to heights of 30–50 meters (100–160 feet). [2]
Tea tree, burgundy-red cultivar 'Wiri Donna' cultivar, Auckland Botanic Gardens. Mānuka (Māori pronunciation:, Leptospermum scoparium), also known as mānuka myrtle, [1] New Zealand teatree, [1] broom tea-tree, [2] or just tea tree, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) and south-east Australia.
Lepidodendrales (from the Greek for "scale tree") or arborescent lycophytes are an extinct order of primitive, vascular, heterosporous, arborescent (tree-like) plants belonging to Lycopodiopsida. Members of Lepidodendrales are the best understood of the fossil lycopsids due to the vast diversity of Lepidodendrales specimens and the diversity in ...