Hi all,
This is my very first post in this website's forum and I guess most beginners I will very much appreciate some help in deciding what equipment to start with.
My goal would be to be able to see nebulaes and galaxies clear enough to be appreciated. In other words, I would like to see something more than just something that my inexpert eye could not discern from a star.
At the moment I can't dedicate more than a couple hundred AU dollars to buy either a telescope or a binocular.
In the last couple of weeks I spent lots of time exploring: ebay and other online offering. At the same time I searched review relatives to the items I thought may meet my goal and in the process refined my understanding of what realistically should I look too to get as close as I can to identify what equipment I should look at.
Said all this, my current understanding, also reading the reviews in this forum, is that I should go for a good binocular, than a telescope. I refined my choice to a Celestron Skymaster binocular, because the attracting warranty offered by the manufacter and because it seems to me they are more reliable than other brands, which offer similar binoculars. I understood, that giant binoculars, are heavy items and implies using some form of support to avoid the problems would arise whithout them and have already several ideas how to build my own custom solution, after having found good inspirations online.
More precisely I'm oriented for either the Skymaster 15x70, or the 20x70 one, if I will buy on the Australian market, or if buying from international sellers, even the 20x80 one, which implied risks keep me from considering it just as a possible alternative, if going for that model, will allow me to get as close as I can to my beginner goal and your advices are not consistently warn me against it.
Between the Australian official Celestron distributors, I found at least 2 that currently offer the 15x75 binos for $180.00 beside similar shipping charges as other sellers). Currently this bino would be my preferred choice, also given positive opinion I read in this forum.
I thanks forward for your expert advices and run to tide up the kitchen before my wife.... You know what I mean...
Giorgio