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Well, I've really enjoyed binocular viewing so far. It's easy to relax my eyes with the stereoscopic view, and it's also very easy for me to grab my equipment on short notice and set it all up without any problems. Mostly, I just don't know enough about telescopes yet to buy one. I want to be very comfortable with all the technical details before buying one. I plan on putting my tax return towards a 8" reflector sometime next spring.
Also, binocular viewing has been a great introduction to star-hopping and learning the night sky for me.
In any case, I did some looking around and these do come with standard eyepieces. I scaled down my purchase to the GO 20x80 binocular and a somewhat sturdier tripod. This shaved a good $500 off the purchase (when factoring in the required mount and all), which is awesome.
This binocular also has 1.25" filter threads on the eyepieces (and objectives I think), so I went ahead and included a nebula filter with my order. I plan to put the filter on one barrel, and leave the other one standard to produce a nice image of nebula while retaining the context of the surrounding stars.
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