The photographs show the 65-year-old Putin in a khaki outfit and hat, carrying binoculars and trekking poles, hiking in forested mountains and enjoying a boat ride on the Yenisei river in the Tuva region of southern Siberia.
With binoculars the number of stars you can see from a single location rises to about 50,000, ,5000; and with a small two-inch telescope it leaps to 300,000.
Those older telescopes had to focus on nebulae, where the interstellar gas is most concentrated (a familiar one, visible through binoculars, is the gas cloud around the stars that make up Orion's sword).
(10)Take binoculars to see other people, take a magnifying glass to see himself.
Take binoculars to see other people, take a magnifying glass to see himself.
As we approached the Esso dock, I saw him through my binoculars standing there awaiting us.