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CESDewar
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Reged: 01/16/05
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Loc: Morganton, GA, USA
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Re: 25x100 Binocular questions please
06/21/08 09:23 PM
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Using large binoculars on a tripod is...well... a bit of a pain in the neck... literally, but as long as you can deal with that and realize that looking at objects near the Zenith will be problematic, it will work quite well. A p-mount works wonderfully with big binoculars, but they are indeed expensive.
As long as the binoculars are reasonably well-collimated, or have the ability to allow the end user to collimate them, the central sharpness is usually pretty good, even in inexpensive binoculars.
The FOV is small enough that it will indeed cause some issues locating objects - most people end up using a laser pointer or red-dot finder on binoculars this large. I find a laser ideal for binoculars, but you have to be sure they are something you can use (and in public, other users may not appreciate it).
They are definitely a very different "animal" from using a scope - suggestions here about using smaller binoculars first are certainly well-founded, but I jumped almost immediately to a pair of 25x100's and found them to be just wonderful for finding Messier objects, etc. (but then again, I am blessed with relatively dark skies). Heavy light pollution may make them disappointing - if there is any opportunity to look through binoculars like this ahead of time, such as at some star party, that would be highly recommended.
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