Hi
I finally bought a new set of binoculars .. yay and am loving it. I also splashed out and got a Velbon Sherpa 250R tripod, since I found my hand wasn't steady at best of times.
While looking through the binoculars, I managed to see the moons of Jupiter (jupiter as well
) and also Saturn together with titan (a very faint pinhead).
My question is, while looking at Jupiter and Saturn, I found them to be glowing with radiance (sort of like what a diamond is under white light). It sort of had an aura around it (hopefully this makes sense) and due to this, it was hard for me to see a sharp outline of Saturn or Jupiter (for Saturn, I managed to figure out the orientation of the ring due to the high reflectivity).
Is the aura normal for binocular views? Or is it that I am not focusing correctly? I tried my best to get the focus and went from one extreme to the other, just to see if I would get a better view, however at the best view, I still saw the aura (radiance).
Hope my question is coherent (no pun intended
)