... really ... and ... I'd ... IS ... Chris, Be careful about agonizing too much about field of view, particularly when two contending models are within a...
... The 22x eyepieces on the 60 mm Miyauchi are the same eyepieces as the 30x eyepieces available for the 20x77 Miyauchi. (The 20x eyepieces on the 20x77 are...
Barry- That's good advice and explains why when I compared the views through the 6.3 FOV 8X40 Pentax with my 6.5 FOV 10x50 and I couldn't tell the difference...
... Swift and Apogee have 50mm binos with anlged EPs but I understand the optics and mechanical construction needs improvement.... If you have your heart set...
Erik, Thanks for the link to this new Burgess bino, I am eager to read a review on it, can you post the link to the other forum you reference? Thanks. I am...
... reference? TMB's comments about the Burgess 22X65 APO bino appeared in the yahoo BurgessRefractor group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BurgessRefractors/ ...
Thanks for the link, I checked a different burgess group, but didnt try the one it was in... I signed up, and am anxious to read about it. Usually, the...
... hello, I'm interested in acquiring this model, looking for a high quality bino, the most luminous and magnifying that I can use without a tripod (for...
The April 2005 issue of ASTRONOMY that I received yesterday has an article - "Binoculars under $100" by Phil Harrington. This article, beginning on page 70...
... I agree, this is a good reference article. After reading some less than approving comments about this article over on the CN forum, I had this to say. ...
Comet Machholz is making an interesting pass over Polaris. As viewed at 9pm local time the comet is sort of diving down from above and left of the pole star...
I just received an e-mail back from Phil Harrington in response to my quiry about his binocular article in the April, 2005 issue of ASTRONOMY. He said I was...
Try again... OK, medinabrit, thanks a lot for the info. I was afraid 42 was a bit too small for stargazing... I will consider this model as it is smaller and...
... my ... Nikon ... the ... He ... the ... Pretty surprising for someone who is supposedly a binocular expert! I'd say he must be spreading himself pretty...
I noticed the weight given in the table for each models (8x56 & 11x56) is 32 ounces. One of the key reasons I got the Celestron 8x56 binoculars was that they...
... 8x56 ... weighed ... Obies ... 4* ... Hugh, Phil Harrington in the body of the report does say that both Oberwerk binoculars have the same field (6...
I just noticed the title change in this thread after I posted my last reply. I repeat from previous posts, DO NOT CHANGE THREAD TITLES. If you want to take a...
The Oberwerk 8x56 do have an actual measured filed of view of 6.0° and they do weigh 36 oz. edz [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... last ... know ... My bad. I was disciplined otherwise elsewhere, and told to do just the opposite in order to make information retrievable when the actual...
... last ... know ... My bad. I was disciplined otherwise elsewhere, and told to do just the opposite in order to make information retrievable when the actual...
... structure there being a little different than yahoo, Sorry, Ed, I got my bad habits from Talking Telescopes. Geoff Gaherty screams bloody murder over...
One thing that anyone can readily do in starting a new topic when you want to reference something said in another thread, as in going from the Followup to the...
Hello, I'm now fed up with my Nikon Action 7X50 (old model, not the extreme), too low magnification and too narrow field (45° !). I'm looking for portable...
Interest is divided in this group between equiptment and observing with equiptment getting the most posts, but Comet Machholz has been, at least to me, the...
... I saw it last night in my 25x150s. The comet is fading, but seemed to have a 1/2 degree tail. Machholz is directly above Polaris with the tail pointing...
... So you want "The best binos I could find for handheld use", Guy ? Try the Nikon 10x42 SE with a 60° AFOV (weight only 710 gr). You won't be disappointed. ...
