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Originally Posted by barx1963
I purchased a pair of 15x70 Orion binos. They give lovely views but really need a parallelogram mount to use them comfortably. Have tried regular tripods and too fiddly with the height adjustments required. I used them a little at Heathcote over the weekend and easily nabbed M33 in them and they easily enabled the entire LMC in one FOV.
Malcolm
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Yes, tripods are fiddly when they are used conventionally, though they give great views of objects not too high in the sky.
I use 15X70s all the time, both hand held for short periods, and
hand holding a tripod onto which they are mounted. The extra weight added to the binoculars by the tripod makes them much more useable and you can aim at any part of the sky.
Regards,
Renato