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My Bigger Binocular Mount
Well done Erick.
I have always been fond of binoculars – I followed all the advise in the beginners books and purchased my first 7x50’s when I was 11 or so from York Optical at Somerset Place in Melbourne. These were not cheap for what was only mediocre optical quality, but that was all that was around in those days. Buying a telescope was phenomenally expensive.
I think binoculars are great – you get a real sense of the sky, they are portable and convenient and you can use them to locate faint fuzzies for inspection with a telescope. They can even be used as finders, as the attached image attests.
Binoculars come into their own under a dark sky and a bright milky way. Even small ones are awesome when applied to the milky way. Their use in the city seems limited to confirming that there are some faint fuzzies up there.
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