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Definition: First Light |
First LightNoun1. The first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The first light is the moment when a telescope is first used to take an astronomical image after its construction. Sometimes the term refers to the first image of a new instrument.Typically, the first light image is of no scientific interest and has a very poor quality, since the various telescope elements must be adjusted for optimum efficiency. Usually, an important and spectacular celestial object is chosen.
Despite this, a first light is always a moment of great excitement, both for the people who designed and built the telescope, and for the astronomical community.
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Synonyms: First LightSynonyms: aurora (n), break of day (n), break of the day (n), cockcrow (n), dawn (n), dawning (n), daybreak (n), dayspring (n), morning (n), sunrise (n), sunup (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sunset (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: First Light |
| English words defined with "first light": aurora ♦ break of day, break of the day ♦ cockcrow ♦ dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring ♦ morning ♦ sunrise, sunup. (references) |
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Screenplays | Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | Watching the sky's first light (Mad About You; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) See the oil fields at first light (Beautiful Day; performing artist: U2) | |
Movie/TV Titles | First Light (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Acrylic painting of a Snow Goose flying over a marsh at dawn's first light by Daniel Smith, 523 Lexington Drive, Bozeman, Montana 59715. A freelance artist who has earned many honors in the wildlife art world, from winning numerous State stamp design competitions to illustrating pages of National Geographic's Guide to North American Birds. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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first light | 28 |
bulb first light | 13 |
first light nursery | 6 |
alert detector first light motion | 3 |
first light photography | 2 |
angler first light | 2 |
first light pentari | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "first light"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | breckey yn laa (first light of dawn). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irstfay ightlay.(various references) | |
Turkish | şafak (break of day, dawn, daybreak, daylight, sunglow). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-i-l-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: rightist. | |
-3 letters: flights, frights, girlish, strigil, thrifts, tigrish. | |
-4 letters: fights, filths, firths, flight, flirts, fright, friths, fritts, girths, grifts, griths, lights, rights, shrift, slight, thirls, thirst, thrift, tights, tilths. | |
-5 letters: fight, filth, first, firth, flirt, flits, frigs, frith, frits, fritt, gifts, gilts, girls, girsh, girth, girts, grift, grist, grith, grits, hilts, lifts, light, rifts. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-i-l-r-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: fortnightlies, weightlifters. | |
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