Evaluating binoculars

I've just put up some hints on evaluating binoculars in the appropriate
section of my web site:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/...binoculars.htm

I hope it is of use...


Best,
Stephen

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Stephen Tonkin wrote:
I've just put up some hints on evaluating binoculars in the
appropriate section of my web site:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/...binoculars.htm


Is there any binocular telescope, for the standard customer, which is
able to observe the stars through the clouds? Any recommendations?
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Best,
Peter

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:15:36 +0200, in uk.sci.astronomy , "Peter
Einstein" wrote:

Stephen Tonkin wrote:
I've just put up some hints on evaluating binoculars in the
appropriate section of my web site:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/...binoculars.htm


Is there any binocular telescope, for the standard customer, which is

Large-aperture bins cost the earth - imagine buying two 8" refractors
and then paying someone to make a joined mount for them...

You can buy binocular eyepieces for standard 1.25 and 2 inch eyepiece
holders (again pricey). I've no experienced with them but tehy sound
cute.

able to observe the stars through the clouds? Any recommendations?

Through clouds? You mean x-ray bins? Coo !

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:15:36 +0200, in uk.sci.astronomy , "Peter
Einstein" wrote:

Stephen Tonkin wrote:
I've just put up some hints on evaluating binoculars in the
appropriate section of my web site:
http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/...binoculars.htm


Is there any binocular telescope, for the standard customer, which is
able to observe the stars through the clouds? Any recommendations?

Through clouds? You mean x-ray bins? Coo !

Not necessarily, I remember observing Saturn one evening and wondering why
it seemed to be going slightly 'off'. On removing my eye from the eyepiece I
found that clouds had moved in and the planet was completely invisible to
the naked eye.

In article , Stephen Tonkin
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:28:35 writes

http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/...binoculars.htm

I hope it is of use...

It is indeed. Thanks.

Just for your info, viewing "Hand-holding Binoculars" in Firefox shows
the text for each section as a single long line with the picture way way
over to the right. IE shows OK. The other two pages are OK.
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Les Desser wrote in
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Just for your info, viewing "Hand-holding Binoculars" in Firefox shows
the text for each section as a single long line with the picture way way
over to the right. IE shows OK. The other two pages are OK.

FWIW, opera is also OK

mike

mike wrote:
Les Desser wrote in
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Just for your info, viewing "Hand-holding Binoculars" in Firefox shows
the text for each section as a single long line with the picture way
way over to the right. IE shows OK. The other two pages are OK.

FWIW, opera is also OK

My Firefox renders it very wide, too. Here's why (probably):

quote from HTML 4.01 specs by W3C

nowrap [CI]
Deprecated. When present, this boolean attribute tells visual user agents
to disable automatic text wrapping for this cell.
Style sheets should be used instead of this attribute to achieve wrapping
effects.
Note. if used carelessly, this attribute may result in excessively wide
cells.

/quote

So there you have it! Only Firefox follows the spec!

HTH

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In article , Graham
W Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:43:19 writes

My Firefox renders it very wide, too. Here's why (probably):

quote from HTML 4.01 specs by W3C

nowrap [CI]

I was trying to find an option in FF to view the HTML (and could not)
but I found an option: View Page Style and changed the option from
Basic Page Style to No Style - and it then rendered it OK.

No idea why it did what it did but may be useful in the future.
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:51:03 +0100, in uk.sci.astronomy , Les Desser
wrote:

In article , Stephen Tonkin
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:28:35 writes

http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/...binoculars.htm

I hope it is of use...

It is indeed. Thanks.

Just for your info, viewing "Hand-holding Binoculars" in Firefox shows
the text for each section as a single long line with the picture way way
over to the right. IE shows OK. The other two pages are OK.

Confirmed - your html editor has set that table cell to have NOWRAP
attributes. Which is probably not what you want! I suspect it works in
IE because IE is sufficiently broken as to ignore the doctype and
other stuff... :-)

A suggestion: did you consider running your pages through the W3C
compliance checker? I've found it useful for removing the small
inconsistencies generated by older or dodgier HTML editors.



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Les Desser wrote:
In article , Graham
W Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:43:19 writes

My Firefox renders it very wide, too. Here's why (probably):

quote from HTML 4.01 specs by W3C

nowrap [CI]

I was trying to find an option in FF to view the HTML (and could not)
but I found an option: View Page Style and changed the option from
Basic Page Style to No Style - and it then rendered it OK.

No idea why it did what it did but may be useful in the future.

Thanks for that Les - I'll swap you that for how to view the HTML:

Right click on any part of the right hand side except pictures and
choose 'View page source' with the left mouse button.


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