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BillC

Meter readers use such instruments to read meters that must be read from a distance; it sure beats climbing every power pole in the county.

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There are those out there who couldn’t care less about the night sky.

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brentwood

check out ships when we are down on the waterfront.

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keep our eye on the Americans who are to the north, east and south of us!

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planetmalc

viewing cityscapes, and I'd be doing just that with a 20 x 50

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Excellent, thank you very much for this feedback, I assume these real world uses are from people without the profile of reading binocular astro and birding forums, explained them the relative lack of topics on this format. In reality, running a search engine query with the term "what's the point of a 20x50" and the results will return this topic.

Loren Toole, thanks for talking about one astro related use.

Answering the "open agenda" secondary question, a binocular to watch, near home bird nests, mounted. I assume the quality side is a little step heavier on aperture, 60mm have a lot of quality models, most of them focus close enough.

A "hidden agenda" question is the fact I read somewhere else people recommending 20x50 as a great binocular to start on astronomy
So I wasn't sure if I was the only one that think these aren't perfect binoculars to start on astronomy, now I'm at least assured I'm not the only one

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