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Old 12-02-2015, 02:06 PM
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pentax xcf are not as good as the pcf models -as others have suggested the 7mm exit pupil is slightly wasted at places near gosford -better to use a bino like that at a dk sky site. older eyes can often open close to 6mm but with light pollution your eyes never fully dk adapt & often will only open as wide as 4-5mm..meaning your bino effectively operates as 7x35 [7 x 5mm]

i would think either a 8x42-10x50 will be a better option

the HG series at Andrews tick most boxes, if not Matt at telescopes-astornomy in SA has some good 11x70 or 13x70 -they have very good light gather & the 11x power can almost be handheld-they were 130 last time i checked

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