binocular astro

Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?

Cheers
Bill

waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed=20
interest....
What's your favorite object to view ?

With binoculars, the moon, and open clusters (M45 being a favourite). =
Other than that I just like to scan the sky with binoculars, I can spend =
many an hour doing that. Picking out Jupiters moons used to be another =
favourite. Try a quick google for binocular astronomy too.

Graeme

"Bill Boyd" wrote in message
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Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?

She's called... oh, you mean up in the sky? Yeah, normally clusters are good
ones, check any of the astro mags for the months highlights, I know
Skyatnight and others often categorise the things to look at in a month into
naked eye, bins, small telescope, large telescope etc.

Bill Boyd wrote:
Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?



Try for the double cluster in Perseus (NGC 884 & 869)


The Coathanger, or Brocchi's, Cluster should be an easy target early in
the evening.

Here is a finder for the Coathanger :-
http://www.lanode.com/priv/dustlanes.htm

The Coathanger is in the circle, right of, and slightly below centre
(you may have to hold your mouse over the image for a few seconds).

Regards


Donal
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Bill Boyd wrote:
Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?

With BIG bins? M42. Double Cluster. Pleiades. Kemble's Cascade.


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Stephen

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The 3 open clusters in Auriga, all lined up, are the first things I ever
discovered for myself (when I was 10 years old) in binos ; M36, M37, M38

Lots of other open clusters too

Ciao, Roland
What BIG binos did you get & from who ?
Would mind a pair myself of the 45 deg. type

Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?

Kemble's Cascade.

Where would we be without Camelopardalis!?

Also try M31. The main galaxy is pretty dull with bins but it's nice
to be able to pick out the satellite galaxies M32 and M110.

M33, M81/82, M44 with a bonus planet...

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/widefie..._m44_moon.html

(that's the bright thing at the bottom, not the bright thing at the
top!)

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Pete
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Pierre Oct 6, 10:54 pm show options




Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ? .

I took my 25x100 bins to a dark location weekend and it feels I could
have seen the Messier list and more.
The Owl Nebula looked bright, the Helix, ghostly. M13 was an eyeball
popper. Shame that our dark moonless skies were only with us for one
night.
Now I am back in Middle England murk, I feel they (the bins) can rest
comfortably until the next jaunt. They well up in my books.


Pierre MK-UK

(for newsgroup addicts, I posted this elsewhere but is quite relevant
to this new thread)

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 Bill Boyd wrote:
Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?

Cheers
Bill

How big is big?? I was out the other night for the first time in ages
with my binoculars. I recommend scanning along the Milky Way, especially
around Cassiopeia (Stock 2 is a nice cluster). Also, see if you can make
out the "Double Double" star system in Lyra. Can't go wrong with the
Andromeda Galaxy, either.

Has anyone had any luck with observing the Ring Nebula in Lyra through a
pair of bins? I use 10x50s and never had any luck. Also tried a couple
of times with a telescope (4.5") but got too impatient and gave up!

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Conor
I souport publik edukashen.

No chance of seeing the ring through binos I 'm pretty sure
You need a telescope and at least x100 or x150 i think
Roland


"Conor" wrote in message
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 Bill Boyd wrote:
Hi All
waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed
interest....

What's your favorite object to view ?

Cheers
Bill

How big is big?? I was out the other night for the first time in ages
with my binoculars. I recommend scanning along the Milky Way, especially
around Cassiopeia (Stock 2 is a nice cluster). Also, see if you can make
out the "Double Double" star system in Lyra. Can't go wrong with the
Andromeda Galaxy, either.

Has anyone had any luck with observing the Ring Nebula in Lyra through a
pair of bins? I use 10x50s and never had any luck. Also tried a couple
of times with a telescope (4.5") but got too impatient and gave up!

--
Conor
I souport publik edukashen.