I was reminded of it by a few choice glimpses at "New In Town," a recent romantic comedy that Louise, who's twelve, plucked Friday night from the pay-per-view patch.
LSST will view a patch of sky 3.5° across; that's seven times the diameter of the sun or moon.
Recently she arrived first and staked out the perfect viewing spot, a prime patch of shade with stairs nearby to rest on.
That is easier said than done in a place where even residents of modest means have long viewed a patch of yard and sky, a lemon tree and maybe even a swimming pool as all but a birthright, and the fight over Newhall Ranch is proof positive of how hard it will be to change the paradigm.
A more global view of patches is available from TEP experiments, in which both transmitter and receiver are located at substantial distances from the dip equator (e.g., see review of TEP by Nielson and Crochet 1974).
The hoverfly Eristalis has an optical resolution limit of approximately 1° [ 9], meaning that each ommatidium (facet) of the compound eye views a patch of space 1° across.
A 1969 work, an exactingly detailed graphite drawing of the moon's surface, is followed by four near-abstract drawings from the early '70s, which find Ms. Stuart blanketing the Minimalist grid with dark networks of lines, their patterns suggesting aerial shots of topography and nose-to-ground views of patches of earth.
Thirty-one (20 women, 11 men, age range 18 70, mean age 31, SD 11) viewed skin patches only.
For five days, he had been able to view only a patch of the devastation.
Go to her Flickr page to see more photos including an annotated view of our patch of forest.
