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Astro-binoculars useful or not?
I have been considering adding an astro-binocular to my visual observation the 'toolkit'. My 12" Dob is great but I do have to haul it out of the shed and align it, level it etc each time I want to have a look at something. Because of the bush surrounding my place, especially to the south it's hard to tell exactly now much altitude I have to work with for low lying objects like the the Magellanic Clouds and 47 Tucanae which sit at between 16 and 20 degrees altitude at my place in the evening hours at this time of year. I figured the binoculars might make it easy to assess whether and when to get the scope out (yes I know I could just get up at 4am and look at them after they rotate higher).
How useful are they as an observation aid?
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