About Naked Eye
Naked eye, also called bare eye or unaided eye, is the practice of engaging in visual perception unaided by a magnifying or light-collecting optical instrument, such as a telescope or microscope. Vision corrected to normal acuity using corrective lenses is still considered "naked".
What are the Northern Lights? And how can you see them?
![What are the Northern Lights? And how can you see them?](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/12E75/production/_131792477_642aa19b-5d64-4bb5-aedc-a5824f54468c.jpg)
... Be aware that they often won t look as bright to the Naked Eye as they do in photos and video...
AI: Scientists excited by tool that grades severity of rare cancer
![AI: Scientists excited by tool that grades severity of rare cancer](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1AD3/production/_131576860_tina_image.jpg)
... By recognising details invisible to the Naked Eye, AI was 82% accurate, compared with 44% for lab analysis...
Orionid meteor shower to light up the skies
![Orionid meteor shower to light up the skies](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/FA62/production/_131489046_gettyimages-1281417822-1.jpg)
... The shower can be seen with the Naked Eye - you will just need to wait until you adjust to the dark...
Why a 'hologram revolution' could be on the way
![Why a 'hologram revolution' could be on the way](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/AC43/production/_131399044_chameleonhologram-2000.jpg)
... " It s a special material that appears invisible to the Naked Eye, but when lit with an image projected from our high-powered projectors it is captured by the gauze and appears as an embodied character...
James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
![James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9D44/production/_131306204_orion_new_index.jpg)
... Along with the quartet of bright suns at its centre called the Trapezium, this region of space is visible to the Naked Eye as a smudge on the sky...
'Stars align' as aurora lights up Inverness wedding photo
!['Stars align' as aurora lights up Inverness wedding photo](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/A003/production/_131136904_auroawedding.jpg)
... Its colours, which at times can be green, pink and purple, are not usually clearly visible to the Naked Eye, but can be picked up by cameras...
Northern Lights spotted over East Midlands
![Northern Lights spotted over East Midlands](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/D964/production/_131125655_northernlights1909tideswelljocktodd.jpg)
... Although it was not visible to the Naked Eye, his camera captured an image - the third time he said he has seen it from Langar, Nottinghamshire, so far this year...
Dead Sea reveals four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in cave
![Dead Sea reveals four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in cave](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/B798/production/_131000074_8.removingtheswordsfromthecrevicewheretheywerehidden.photographyemilaladjemisraelantiquitiesauthority.jpg)
... Archaeologist Dr Asaf Gayer of Ariel University, geologist Boaz Langford of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and photographer Shai Halevi of the IAA recently went to the cave with the aim of using multispectral photography to decipher parts of the inscription not visible to the Naked Eye...