I've just added a page on mounting binoculars to my web site: http://astunit.com/tonkinsastro/binoculars/binomount.htm Comments, complaints, suggestions,...
Has anybody got Leupold Wind River Mesa"s? How do they compare to Celestron Ultimas 10x50mm"s? Just wondering because I heard they were a reincarnation of the...
... Not much info is available. I will have to locate my little Swift brochure later, but from what I can remember, this model has BK7 prisms and is just...
Hi Edwin, I don't understand your problem with understanding his use of the term, ¿¿¿mastodons??? Mastodons lived in the early United States. Their tusks...
Hi Donald you cought the gist of my argument to perfection. ;>))) Thanks. Bam ... term, ¿¿¿mastodons??? Mastodons lived in the early United States. Their...
... <bamya2be@y...> ... those ... not ... I know that in at least one place I wrote that the difference between ED (Swift Audubon 8.5x44 ED) and the non-ED...
Hello Everyone, I am interested in a highly portable mounting solution for my binoculars. They range from 10x50 up to 15X70 Fuji FMT-SX. I have been...
Just turned on my computer after several days break...try it, its very refreshing. Read thread about 150 ED with some amusement. Are the straight thru, non ED...
... A monopod is pretty much just a "support" that allows you to handhold your binoculars without having to deal with their weight. It is more "steady" than...
... A couple of additional thoughts.... The joker in the deck is the word "worth"; that is a matter of individual choice. Is a Harley Davidson motorcycle...
I started observing the Messier objects with Fuji 10x70 and found 75/109 in my light poluted skies (might have found most of them if dark enough skies), I then...
... I guess we sometimes can equate the above situation to something like the story of Goldilocks trying to find the porridge and the bed that are "just...
I saw this just a little while ago on the Cloudy Nights binocular forum - New binoculars from Miyauchi - 9x62 (with 12x and 16.5x eyepieces available too) & ...
... Hey Ed.... Maybe its time to think about JMIs new 10 inch binoscope for those galactic clusters; Im waiting for someone whose opinion I trust to give me a...
Just got this response back from Kevin Busarow - Hi Barry, The "Owlets" are supposedly just for the Japanese market. But I do have one of the 20x77 straight...
... For me, binoscopes are not at all the same as binoculars. I really value the correct image and wide FOV in binoculars. My understanding is that the JMI...
... Beats me...I just think the JMIs are wackey looking; certainly a conversation piece. Something different if you are a collector of optics. I agree with...
I used a pair of 20"f4 binoculars whilst standing on a stepladder. The Veil Nebula was in the field, standing out in 3D; the best I've ever seen the nebula....
... The 3-D effect, however, was simply an optical illusion. The 3-D structure has no basis in reality. I have seen it on star clusters in binoculars when...
I work for a daily newspaper. We recently converted from conventional film imagers to a direct-to-plate system. We no longer do any negative stripping and no...
As I have said in a previous post, I saw the JMI RB-10 prototype at Okie-Tex last year. The instrument was a cool black (not the white in the ads). I was not...
Hello. ... Sometime I tried to answer such a question here, but I will not do again :-) You can find some answers to your question (and eventually ask more to...
I'm putting together a little "contest" for my local astronomy club meeting this Thursday, and came up with the following list of twilight objects: Time...
Here's are the times at which I found them tonight when I went out around 8:50pm. It took me just a few seconds to get the tripod and the 20x80's set up. I...
Jim from JMI came down to Colorado Springs this Spring and brought the prototype with him. We used it in light polluted skies, so only saw Jupiter and the...
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