Re: Binoculars ---> Telescope
From: Tony Flanders (tony_flanders_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/27/04
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Date: 27 Jun 2004 11:42:17 -0700
"Dimitri I. Rakitine" <dimitrir@portbridge.com> wrote in message news:<2LednS3UXL1qrUPdRVn-uA@portbridge.com>...
> Up until now I was learning the sky using Fujinon 7x50 FMT SX binoculars.
> Then I decided to up magnification a little and got
> 9x63 Celestron Ultima ones - what a disappointment:
>
> - no individual adjustments like on Fuji - as I prefer not to wear glasses,
> it is an inconvinience
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand -- or you may be missing something important.
I seen many different models in the Celestron Ultima line, and they're all
conventional center-focus binoculars. That means that there is an
individual adjustment for the right eyepiece only. First you focus the
left eye with the center focus, then you adjust the right eye by twisting
the eyepiece. Works fine for me with or without glasses.
> So, (I already decided that I want a telescope), whats the magnification
> people think is the borderline between hand-holdable
> ane one which needs a solid mount?
Look, if you want magnification, by all means get a telescope -- regular
binoculars can't compete. I can see *far* fainter objects and *far*
more detail in a 50mm telescope at 30X than in my 10x50 binoculars.
Not even close, not worth discussing. But of course, I don't get
that lovely wide field and convenient hand-holdability with the scope.
As for magnification and hand holding, it all depends what you want.
I can't get a genuinely crisp image even at 7X when I'm hand-holding
binoculars -- but I do find the image quite acceptable. At 10X, I
find the image annoyingly shaky if I'm just standing up, but when
I'm reclining in a deck chair or lying on the ground, it's just fine.
Frankly, I wouldn't do *any* serious binocular astronomy standing up;
not only are the images lousy, but it's a pain in the neck.
Then there's image-stabilized binoculars -- a whole new experience!
You can't have your cake and eat it too, but IS binoculars come
mighty close.
- Tony Flanders
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