Binocular

This book is a comprehensive technical treatise on binoculars as visual optical instruments. The author begins by discussing the function of binoculars and the properties of human visual perception. Theoretical models for the synthesis of binoculars and the complex interplay of the different components of binoculars are described. Subsequently, the performance limits, as experienced by the observer in a variety of external conditions, are derived. In the concluding section, the book takes the reader outdoors, where they learn to evaluate the properties and limitations of their binoculars in the field, and to recognize possible problems that may be due to manufacturing errors or accidental damages.

After three albums, each one more surprising than the other - published between 1997 and 2002 - Atrox has lost their focus a bit with "Orgasm", an album less elaborated and less corageous than usual. Right after it the band went through a crisis due to the leaving of Monika Edvardsen, chamaleon-vocalist which characterized the band's sound more than any other musician since the beginning. The core of the band is still the same as usual (the two guitar players Rune Sorgard and Eivind Fjoseide, plus the drummer Tor-Arne Helgesen), but it's not easy to approach "Binocular" considering that now Atrox are lead by a male vocalist.

Binocular Highlights is a tour of 99 different celestial sights — from softly glowing clouds of gas and dust to unusual stars, clumps of stars, and vast star cities (galaxies) — all visible through binoculars.