Loren, you have collected a nice range of glasses here. The trouble for somone who likes to observe OCs is that due to the wide range of sizes of potential...
I went through much the same process with the ones I had. In the end, having a pair of 20x90 Obies to do a side by side shootout with, helped me with my...
Rick wrote: Some other ... After a cloudy and rainy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday :(, just before bed this Sunday night, I went out to take out the compost and...
the coathanger is clearly visible using 10x60 bino, but andromeda galaxy is only a small fuzzy blob of light from my backyard Sydney Australia wayne_schlapkohl...
Ken, the Andromeda Galaxy by itself is well worth a drive to a dark site. Under the best skies, in your 10x60s if they're half decent, you can expect it to...
I posted this on the Yahoo Starrynights list. Realizing that not everyone here reads that forum, as well as the desire many have for seeing more observing...
You have to catch this in the early evening (sets about 9:00 PM), but the double star Nu Scorpii is a nice tight one, about 47" separation according to Starry...
Nice catch, usually gone by 8 p.m. for me Chris, last night I split Almach with my BT 100s with my 7.5 Orions, easy with my 8" scope but a first for me with...
George, Yes, I can really only get Nu Scorpii pretty early in the evening--it slips away quickly behind trees & mountains here right now. 9:00 PM may be the...
... Nice report, Rick, it sounds like a great evening. I never tire of searching out the small NGC GCs in Sco/Oph; they're not much to look at but fun to hunt...
thanks, Mark Mark Vints <mark.vints@...> wrote:Ken, the Andromeda Galaxy by itself is well worth a drive to a dark site. Under the best skies, in your...
... Barry, I am very sorry to hear that you were involved with the New Orleans disaster. On a less important matter, I did try to find the answer to the above ...
... Bill, I have the Sirus Unimount (from UA) with my 25x150s. This is the big brother of the regular unimount, and is a very high quality, functional P-mount...
It is fall in the Ozarks, the leaves are changing, the weather is cooling, the summer haze is leaving. I got up at 3:00 this AM to fire up the 25x150s for a...
I recently got some Orion seconds 25x100. I had been considering sending them back for several reasons. I took them out a couple of nights ago and compared...
The prices of these two binocs are similar and I was wondering how these compare. Short of going up a notch or two to the Orion Savanahs I am hoping I can live...
... Can you still get them-I have not seen them advertised in a long time. I saw a pair-once. Big, heavy, the FOV was small with the zoom eps. I would...
... time. ... eps. ... Miyauchi ... therefore,good or bad,they command a premium prie. I just don't don't know if the fov would be too small for me.From what I...
Wayne, The zoom eyepieces weren't designed necessarily for DSO's. The added optics to make these zoom by virtue of design cause the narrow FOV. It's a...
Based on a long discussion with the Vixen rep at the Table Mountain Star party last Summer and specific inquiries by a large Vixen dealer to Vixen, apparently...
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... Let me try again, from the top this time: Do we have a future member of the 25x150 club? ed jones In binocularastronomy@yahoogroups.com, "edwincjones" ... ...
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RE: Cory Sudarth's comments on the 20x125's and their alignment Based on my experience with a Vixen BT-80 I have to agree with Cory that the large Vixen binos...
The latest installment of my semi-occasional series of techno-rants on interesting stuff I happen to run across is posted at the following website: ...
I have been reading a bunch of reviews here about 15X70 binoculars. I am a bit confused. Are the Celestron, Oberwerk, Galileo, Apogee, and others the same...
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