Telescope Reviews: Re: JUST FOR GRINS

Using the NcSTAR 20x70mm, tonight, on the full moon shows internal reflections, I seem to notice much less of these reflections when wearing my eyeglasses, with anti-reflective coatings. (does that make sense?)

There is some CA, depending upon how well the IPD is adjusted.

There is a slightly warmish, yellowish color bias, when viewing the full moon.

The sharpness, when viewing the full moon, is quite excellent for a binocular of this price range.

I tried it on Jupiter, early in the morning, but could not get a perfectly round sphere. There was some elongation/stretching of the planet.

I was able to see all four moons without any difficulty.

Looking at Saturn as it was setting in the west was not very impressive. It took a good deal of finicky, focusing adjustments to catch a reasonable shape of the planet.
Saturn is still toooo small thru this binocular, and I have a hunch that if EdZ were to spec it out, that the magnification would actually turn out to be less than 20x.

Stars have some coma, but fiddling around with fine tuning of the focuser and the right diopter, does improve things.

Overall, for stargazing, my Barska 30x80mm X-Trail is still the BETTER performer of the two, inexpensive, JUST FOR GRINS high magnification binoculars.

I think the NcSTAR 20x70mm will be a better daytime performer, than it is for nighttime usage.

Edited by hallelujah (05/20/08 06:09 PM)

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