Bucks tend to hit the sack very early now, so you'll need to bring good light-gathering optics.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Need to Hunt Early-Season Bucks] Reference

Owls and flying squirrels with their huge, light-gathering eyes are deftly sailing through the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Reflected sunlight glinted from oblique surfaces into the light-gathering lenses of the telescanner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference

Scientists usually rely on DNA from chloroplasts light-gathering structures needed for photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

The cotyledon often becomes the first photosynthetic (green, light-gathering) organ of the young seedling.    From Wordnik.com.  [4.1 Nursery establishment] Reference

Imagine the resolving power and light-gathering capabilities of a fifty-meter version of the Hubble Space Telescope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Near-future Space Industries] Reference

In contrast, beetles, bees and many mosquito species have the light-gathering units fused together into a “closed system.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

I would have to agree that its light-gathering capabilities rival those of the Leupold (of which I have a VXII mounted on a Browning A-bolt).    From Wordnik.com.  [I have the Marlin Xl7 in 30-06, and I am thinking about getting the Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40 scope for it what do yall think?] Reference

The Elizabeth telescope only has a single one metre mirror, and about the same light-gathering power as just one of Salt's 91 mirror segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And Rourke had mounted up and gone, leaving the Steyr-Mannlicher SSG rifle with Rubenstein for added protection, the light-gathering qualities of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nightmare Begins]

In contrast, beetles shown surrounding the fruit fly, bees and many mosquito species have the light-gathering units fused together into a “closed system.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

By manipulating the microscope and its light-gathering power, the experimenter could work with weak radioactive sources and still observe a fair number of particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference

Rod cells are light-gathering cells in the retina of the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Scientist Online] Reference

In an image sensor, larger pixels mean better light-gathering capability.    From Wordnik.com.  [GeekLikeMe.net] Reference

The un-enhanced light-gathering capacity of digital cameras is remarkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Digital Journalist] Reference

The most important quality you're looking for in all telescopes is light-gathering ability.    From Wordnik.com.  [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference

The researchers used the Keck Interferometer, which combines the light-gathering power of both.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Now, we've got the same light-gathering power, the same lack of atmosphere, but a brand new camera!.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Luigi's incisions have even more finish, clearness, and light-gathering quality than those of his brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

The increased light-gathering power will mean the addition of many millions of stars to those already known.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Heavens] Reference

They operate under low-light conditions, while cone cells perform the light-gathering duty when it is bright.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Scientist Online] Reference

Or a telescope about four times wider than the Hubble with, consequently, a much bigger light-gathering mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER] Reference

As a rule of thumb, larger sensors deliver better photos because they have greater light-gathering capabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

With the functional ISO range of that body, I doubt I would need the light-gathering ability of f/2.8 very often.    From Wordnik.com.  [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

To return to our telescopic observations: -- The trapezium affords a useful test for the light-gathering power of the telescope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.] Reference

Of course, a telescope's magnification and light-gathering ability create only an image of what a human could see if visiting these places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stardust Musings and Thoughts for the Freethinker] Reference

By this larger light-gathering he discerns things for which the light falling on his pupil one-fifth of an inch in diameter would not be sufficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference

But you only want an LCD so small, and the most critical limiter of low-light ability is the light-gathering ability - namely the size - of the lens.    From Wordnik.com.  [RO.RSS] Reference

You would need the light-gathering power of a 12-inch aperture telescope, and a 9 mm eyepiece, which would give you 182x, and a very dark, clear sky.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Scientists have discovered that part of the eye's light-gathering machinery works in a previously unknown way to relay visual information to the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

But even the Hubble Space Telescope, the most famous of them all, has less than one-fourth of the light-gathering ability of the venerable Hale telescope.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

E-ELT's immense light-gathering capacity will capture "twice as many photons as the TMT could and three times as many photons as the GMT," Kissler-Patig says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Panasonic LX5's sensor increases the size of both layers of microlenses, decreasing the gap between lenses for adjacent pixels, and increasing light-gathering area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaging Resource News Page] Reference

For astronomy, that means the most light-gathering power (or largest mirror), the least atmospheric distortion (or, ideally, no atmosphere), and the best camera possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

"gapless" microlenses that gather light from one edge of the pixel to the other and focus it on the light-gathering area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The camera is a light-gathering device.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 9th Directive]