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Binos On Wednesday

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15 years 7 months ago - 15 years 7 months ago #73589 by lunartic_old
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Hi all

I could only get out for a short stint on Wednesday night so I took out the 10X50 binos.

Jupiter displayed three moons.
The moon was beautiful, as always.
I scouted around and got the usual suspects, M31, M13, M15, the Double Cluster, The Coathanger, of which I got a sketch, M27, etc.
Then I got to thinking, I have observed the Messier Catalogue using 25X100 binos, but can it be done with 10X50s? I reckon that it might be possible, for many Messier's it will require very dark skies and a tripod for the binos.
Does anyone else thing it can be done?

Anyway, here's the sketch.

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15 years 7 months ago #73594 by DeirdreKelleghan
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Real nice sketch, and yes 10X50's are great to have a scoot around the sky when we get a little window of opportunity.


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15 years 7 months ago #73612 by Keith g
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It can be done alright, of course there wouls be a few challenging messier's but a lot of patience would be needed...go for it...

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