The Large Magellanic Cloud and its neighbour and relative, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are conspicuous objects in the southern hemisphere, looking like separated pieces of the Milky Way to the naked eye.
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By September, in Ursa Major, it was becoming a conspicuous object in the evening sky as it approached perihelion : William Herschel noted that a tail 25?long had developed by October 6.
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Wilkes observed, " After the king's palace, the fort is the most conspicuous object : it is of little account, however, as a defence, serving chiefly to confine unruly subjects and sailors in.
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Five acres of land " in a good position " was purchased and it was reported that " the Church will be a conspicuous object in the main street of the town ".
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Here as in most other cases, astronomers are unable to determine the nature of the phenomena producing the gamma ray emissions because they cannot find any conspicuous objects shining in other radiations near these locations.
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The neighborhood is extremely stony; south of the village are scattered olives, which are conspicuous objects; on the west, a little lower under a cliff, is a small olive yard in which the camp of the Survey party was pitched in 1874; to the south-west of camp were a few figs.
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If a radar target-and thus the associated range / bearing of a conspicuous object-can be automatically correlated with the known position of that object in an automated manner, radar can be upgraded to an automated positioning system-or position verification system-and may ultimately function as a terrestrial back-up option for satellite positioning ( GNSS ).
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In 1841, American naval officer Charles Wilkes ( 1798 1877 ) who visited Lahaina Fort as commanding officer of the United States Exploring Expedition observed : " After the king's palace, the fort is the most conspicuous object : it is of little account, however, as a defence, serving chiefly to confine unruly subjects and sailors in.
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There is a minaret to the mosque which is a conspicuous object . " According to an Arabic inscription on the mosque, the construction of the mosque and the remains of a fortification in the village are credited to Yusef el-Omar, a Zaydani family member and brother of the 18th century ruler of the Galilee, Zahir al-Umar.
