I've been stargazing for a few months already using mainly a pair of binoculars that I had. I was looking for better equipment especially for stabilizing the image.
I bought a cheap tripod with a ball head and a binoculars adaptor and it seemed like a good idea at first but now I see some problems:
1. It's very hard, if not impossible to see thigs that are right above me. Anything higher than 45 degrees up in the sky has me bend my neck and body in very uncomfortable positions. Looking at things that are right above me is basically impossible since my chin would eventually touch the tripod.
2. The image is still shaky. Better than nothing but far from what I expected. From what I've seen the smallest contact I have with the binoculars (even if it's just my eyebrows touching it) makes the image shaky because of my tiny natural head movements (caused by heartbeats usually). I have to sit somewhat away from the binoculars and not touch it at all for the image to be stable, which is pretty weird and results in a bad image.
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or is there something wrong with the equipment or if I need something else.
I'm looking for some feedback and eventual recommendations and I wanna know if a binoculars view can truly be stable (and comfortable) as well as a telescope one is.