OK, I will make one more short report and then quit because the outcome of the conversation is that these are excellent binoculars and if they are still on sale at Cabela's you might consider a pair.

Last night I was under skies with 7 out of 10 for transparency in southern Arizona. Lots of naked eye detail in the Milky Way and I could hold a 6.7 mag star constantly with direct vision, a very good night.

The clusters M7 and M6 in Scorpius were outstanding, both are resolved into about 25 stars and the red giant star in M6 (BM Sco) was easily seen as medium orange in color. M 24, the Small Sagitarrius Star Cloud has absolutely fascinating--lots of stars across the face of this star cloud with beautiful chains of stars and the two dark markings on the northern edge (B92 and 93) are easy and show good contrast.

M 17 showed inner bright detail and averted vision showed off an outer fainter nebulous area. M 8 is large, elongated and the dark lane that gives it the name "Lagoon" was easily seen to wind through the nebula. 12 stars were seen in the cluster within the nebula.

It was an joy to sit comfortably in a chair and enjoy the night sky with these binoculars. I have sold off all my others, except for a wide angle pair of 8X42's. These will be the binoculars I will be using for years to come.

Clear skies to us all;
Steve Coe