Binoculars?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at
1:04 pm
Is this a good choice of binocular for astronomical use? Please let me know which of the two is better! Thanks!http://www.telescope.com/jump.jsp?itemTy…
US $95.61
Binoculars are the choice to see lots of sky in your field of view. You will never have the magnification that you get with a telescope, but for spotting things and browsing the vista of the Milky Way, you can’t beat them.
Having said that, there is a case for getting binoculars with the widest field of view, and that would be 7×50. I can’t see that the extra 3 magnification of the 10×50 would give you much more advantage – you would probably see more detail on the moon, but that would be about it.
When the next close comet comes by, your 7×50s will be indispensible for finding it when it is still a dim object, and following its progress from night to night.
Good luck.
PS – Astronomy has been my passion for 40 years, and I only use binoculars. Personally, I believe that unless you can afford a big scope, you soon tire of what you can see with a 6 inch scope. Telescopes do not open up the sky like binoculars. And binoculars are easy to carry around, and of course, you can use them to view lots of other things.
Yes it is, for using a telescope you see less area, but with Binoculars you have a bigger field of view, plus it’s harder to find objects, where with a telescope you have to first find the object with the finder scope, which has a wide field of view, then center the object in the cross hairs, then look through the larger telescope.
Get the 10×50. The first number is the magnification (10x) the second number is the diameter of the primary optics (50mm). These are pretty good binoculars, but for a truly remarkable pair of 10×50, look at the celestron model. They cost a bit more, but in this case, you get what you pay for. I hope this helps, good luck.
I doubt you can see any kind of recognizable shape unless you happen to catch it passing in front of the moon.
Cool pictures:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0609/iss_shuttle_legault_f.jpg
When I bought my 16×70 Fujinon FMT-SX, I showed it to my father. First thing he asked was, where is the magnification? [he meant zoom]. He was also very surprised that his 8-24×25 Nikon zooms have higher magnification than this, so in his opinion it was stupid of me to buy this large Fujinon binoculars. Nonetheless, I think that my dad’s little zoom binos have quite a bit of a tunnel vision compared to these large Fujis. I like the Fujis, my father likes the little Nikon. For each his own.
but he said “guesstimate” rather douchey..
lmfao
I would add to coldfieldgirl's good answer, and say that good binoculars will also display Jupiter's 4 largest moons. After all, Galileo's telescope was not as powerful or as well made as a cheap pair of modern binoculars.
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