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Very useful!
The bottom line is that some objects are going to look better at low power and in a wide field of view, which a scope isn’t always going to provide.
Some of the best views of the Andromeda galaxy, LMC, SMC, the pleiades, star fields and emission nebula in the Milky Way have come from my 15x70s. Binoculars provide excellent context of where an object is in the larger sense.
Also, it’s a real pleasure viewing astronomical objects with both eyes! It is how we were meant to see. The moon, for instance, takes on a 3D appearance in binoculars, because using both eyes allows for depth perception, unlike single eye viewing with a scope.
Cheers!
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