My first real introduction to astronomy was when I went to our local recycling center and bought the gear listed in my sig I thought great I will see some stuff with this. And I did with some help from all you fine fellow astronomers and some locals. But little did I know until tonight when I took out the 10x50 $25 Binoculars and looked up into the same sky I have been prowling with my scope which I thought looked empty with interesting things spread quite a distance apart. I was expecting more tightly packed stars but after looking with the binoculars I think that I may have been looking past all the stars because suddenly the sky was alive. Is it because my lowest power EP is a 20mm that I am missing all those stars and clusters or is it that my scopes main mirror does need re coating. I can see Jupiter great with it and the ring nebula with the center hole showing do I need to get lower powered EP's to get the most out of the scope. I know that I started backwards by getting the big Dob first and then trying Binoculars but I was extremely surprised when I looked through the Binoculars.
What EP's would you all recommend to get a similar view as the binoculars it has given me a new outlook on what I can see from my own backyard.
