What are your experiences with bino "wow" factor?

Loren Toole
Santa Fe, NM

During a Middle School event a friend and I did in Ripton, VT - very dark
skies - we viewed M31 in 11x80 Parks? UO? binos, and it was the WOW object
of the night. These binos have a 4.5degree fov, and M31 appeared wider than
that. Tremendous, and more impressive than the view in our 6" f/6 mak-newt
with a BW-Optic 30mm which we like a whole lot!

Dennis