Cathal Ferris » binoculars http://www.swibble.com Cathal's place Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:01:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Binoculars http://www.swibble.com/archives/184 http://www.swibble.com/archives/184#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 10:51:40 +0000 Cathal http://www.swibble.com/?p=184 I got my hands on a battered pair of Teleskop-Service 15×70 binoculars that had been dropped a few times and damaged. The previous owner had tried to fix them but the binoculars just didn’t want to stay aligned. So I had a go at fixing them, and now they stay aligned for the moment and the focuser operates correctly after the addition of a bit of neoprene foam around hte barrels to act as a spring.

First light was Friday night, and it was enlightening to see how easy M101 and M51 were to see, M13 looked like a globular cluster and not just a puffball. M104 was seen as a spindle. It really looked like I was looking  through two telescopes and seeing more than I had been seeing in the ETX.

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