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You'd be suprised how much you can see with "ordinary" binoculars. Joel Send a noteboard - 31/01/2010 05:11:00 AM
I have binoculars for star observations to make sure that it's not just a passing fad before buying a $1000 telescope. $25 and well worth it.


I didn't know they made binoculars for star gazing. Are they just higher power than regular binoculars?
I had forgotten about the moon as I was doing some errands at the time and was inside while it was on the horizon but I saw it around 7 PM up in the sky and it was huge even higher up.

Most people don't know it, but Galileos first telescope, with which he made many observations (including, I believe, the four largest Jovian moons) was a 9X. And, as moondog will be happy to point out, for meteor showers binoculars are really the best way to go, because even weak magnification on most telescopes provide too small a field of view.
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