You all raise Interesting points. I guess it's really an individual thing. I had a pair of cheap 10x50 binos for years, and used to look at the stars with them and was impressed with what I could see, but it was never gonna get me into astronomy. The binos were not comfortable though. They were misaligned so the stereo view was very straining on the eyes. I pulled it apart to see if I could fix it and that was the end of it. Also, 10x50 is too much for me, I can't hold it steady enough. I've got a 2nd hand 7x50 now and it's much better.
What got me seriously interested in amateur astronomy was a cheap 4.5" reflector, and the sight of Saturn through it.
Ving, I'm still considering grabbing the 60mm
refractor from Dick Smith, purely out of curiosity.
