[eze]

Hello everybody

This is my first post here.
I am looking to have my first contact with the astronomy and after doing some reading I decided not to buy a crappy retail refractor scope , but a good pair of binoculars.
So I read that the AOE are quite good. But I am not sure which one to buy. I would like to buy the 15x70, but the thing is that I am not playing to buy a tripod for them. I read that they can be used for short term handling.
How difficult are they to used?Can you just lay down on a chair and help with your eyes? Or used some domestic help like books or soemthing like that.
Should I otherwise buy a 12x60 that would be more easy to use with the hands.
I don't have a lot of idea of what so see. I presume the moon would be nice and then just browsing through the ski to see if i can catch some clusters of star and start learning them.

Another thing to mention is that my wife will also would like to used them and of course I will show them to my two boys of 5 and 3.

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards
Ezekiel