40 x 70 binoculars

[beetlejuice89]

Hi

I'm pretty new to star gazing, I have 10 x 50 and 8-14x50 binoculars but I've seen these on eBay

http://www.amazon.co.uk/douself-Binoculars-Telescope-Reflector-Hunting/dp/B00GNT35TU

Just wanted to know if anyone has had any experience of these and/or are they any good for stargazing. I don't really have a lot of money to spend so when I saw these 40x bins I hoped they might be OK.

Any ideas please

Thanks

Brad

[Stu]

Brad, save your money, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole!

X40 in binoculars would be impossible to hand hold and they do not have a tripod adaptor. The red coated optics are normally associated with poor optics and it's highly unlikely that they will be collimated very well.

[beetlejuice89]

Thanks for your advice, I'll avoid them then,

I'm also lookin at the celestron 25x70 binoculars, would they be good?

Thanks

Brad

[damnut]

Hi Brad they are good, but also have a look at the Strathspey binos, they have a great reputation, to be found here http://www.strathspey.co.uk/shop/full.php?q=1118416781  BTW yo will need muscles or a decent tripod for either the celestron or strathspey!!

[Stu]

One question is what do you expect from your next pair? Unless you get very high end binos with changeable eyepieces then to me they are always for widefield observing.

I think 15x70's as suggested are probably a good bet as you can hand hold them just about, and they give a decent increase in aperture over the 50mm.

You won't see much additional detail with x25 (planets etc), and they will be much harder to hold, definitely tripod territory.

Wait for other opinions though before deciding anything

[John]

15x70 is the highest magnfication that I can hand hold and even then the astro views are much better when they are mounted on a sturdy and tall tripod. If I went for 70mm binoculars again I might be tempted to try 11x70 or 12x70's. 25 x 70's would need a tripod to be of any astro use I think. A suitable tripod can cost as much or more than the binoculars !

[Charic]

Douself or Do your self a favour!

Save your money for the reasons already listed in #2

[Peter Drew]

I think you already have binoculars reasonably covered, for more detail and moving forward with your astronomical interest you might be better served by saving for a while longer and then get a telescope. 

[ollypenrice]

Hi Brad they are good, but also have a look at the Strathspey binos, they have a great reputation, to be found here http://www.strathspey.co.uk/shop/full.php?q=1118416781  BTW yo will need muscles or a decent tripod for either the celestron or strathspey!!

Muscles and the stilled calm of a practised zen monk, I think...

Olly

[ronin]

Keep the money and look for a nice little scope.

You do not need the biggest lump of glass that man can produce to see a lot of objects up there.

Most of my gazing is done with a 70mm achro.

The big advantage is I can alter the magnification, cannot do that on binoculars and what they are generally will not show much detail.

I use binoculars a fair amount but my opinion is they are for looking around, a scope is for looking at.

[delbi1]

Hi

I'm pretty new to star gazing, I have 10 x 50 and 8-14x50 binoculars but I've seen these on eBay

http://www.amazon.co.uk/douself-Binoculars-Telescope-Reflector-Hunting/dp/B00GNT35TU

Just wanted to know if anyone has had any experience of these and/or are they any good for stargazing. I don't really have a lot of money to spend so when I saw these 40x bins I hoped they might be OK.

Any ideas please

Thanks

Brad

I did buy these bins about a month ago, they really are not 40x  seems more like about 8x to me  the viewing is actually clear i was surprised. still selling them though lol and going back to my trusted 10x50 30year old bins