Meaning of ultraconcentration | Babel Free

Definitions

Extraordinary concentration; hyperconcentration.

Examples

“Ogan merely grunted. She recognized the signs of ultraconcentration. He was trying mind-search, striving to learn what he could. But there was no confidence in his tension; rather the strain of his effort grew more apparent. And she was troubled by that. In the ordinary way any crewman such as Iuban led would be well open to reading by a master as competent as Ogan. That the mysterious pursuers were not as his concern suggested, meant they were equipped with shields. But why, if he had discovered that fact, as he would have at once, did he still struggle to touch?”

“What about the starriest view through a telescope? There are so many kinds of telescopes — so many apertures and different eyepieces and different held diameters. We can raise the question of whether we should count in this competition the richest open star clusters (see Sight 47) and the most resolvable globular star clusters (see Sight 48) . But if we wish to talk about wide telescopic helds that are richly carpeted from wall to wall with individual stars, I would recommend looking at M24 — the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud. A medium-sized telescope with the widest-held eyepiece can ht this entire 2°-by1 ° brightest knot in the naked-eye Milky Way into a single held of view and show its individual stars down to 12th or 13th magnitude (or dimmer?). Not counting the ultraconcentrations of rich star clusters, is it ever possible to see more than a few hundred stars at a time in any single very wide naked-eye, 10°- wide binoculars, or 2°-wide telescopic held of view? Maybe not, but when you stare through the porthole of the spaceship that is your telescope at M24, you will gasp and feel your spirits soar as you yourself fall in, drown, come back up, and then proceed to revel and luxuriate in an ocean of stars.”

“What about the starriest view through a telescope? There are so many kinds of telescopes — so many apertures and different eyepieces and different held diameters. We can raise the question of whether we should count in this competition the richest open star clusters (see Sight 47) and the most resolvable globular star clusters (see Sight 48) . But if we wish to talk about wide telescopic helds that are richly carpeted from wall to wall with individual stars, I would recommend looking at M24 — the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud. A medium-sized telescope with the widest-held eyepiece can fit this entire 2°-by1 ° brightest knot in the naked-eye Milky Way into a single held of view and show its individual stars down to 12th or 13th magnitude (or dimmer?). Not counting the ultraconcentrations of rich star clusters, is it ever possible to see more than a few hundred stars at a time in any single very wide naked-eye, 10°- wide binoculars, or 2°-wide telescopic held of view? Maybe not, but when you stare through the porthole of the spaceship that is your telescope at M24, you will gasp and feel your spirits soar as you yourself fall in, drown, come back up, and then proceed to revel and luxuriate in an ocean of stars.”

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