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Old June 7th 04, 06:11 PM
Alex
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Default East Africa and binoculars.

Next week I will be traveling to east Africa, taking some binoculars with
me. The binoculars are mainly intended for the animals. But seeing that
the stars will probably be very bright in a place like east Africa I'd
like to use them for some sky watching too.
But I have absolutely no experience with that, I have no idea what will be
visible with those binoculars. The enlargement factor is 10 and the lens
diameter is 25 mm.
So my question to you is what objects can I expect too see?

I have a program on my computer called KStars wich is really neet and
comtains lots of sky objects and info about it. So locating the objects
won't be a very big problem. It's just that I don't know wich will be
visible with my binoculars and wich will not (assuming that the binoculars
actually add something to the things I will see). Like will I be able to
see rings around Saturn? Or some shape in the Omega Centauri or the Orion
Nebula? Or are those things too far fetched and should I just look at the
moon or something.

Thanks in advance for every reply you make.

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