Pedro In Devon

That's great, thanks very much.

I have taken a couple to hopefully cover the options.

Hi Craig and all those helping. I am in a similar position experience wise to Craig and have just ordered a Sky-Watcher Explorer-200PDS (EQ5) Parabolic Dual-Speed Newtonian Reflector Telescope and was wondering what to get on with while I await arrival of same. Thanks to Craigs' questions and your answers I am now in posession of Turn left At Orion and am reading same. In the meantime I am using a pair of Carl Zeiss Jena (old East German manufacture) 10x50 binoculars I got for my 21st birthday (a long time ago, before Victoria came to the throne). Unfortunately they don't have any means of attaching them to a tripod and they are quite heavy so prolonged use is difficult. Does anyone have a 'universal' binocular tripod mount that they would recommend please? I have had a look through various internet sites but reviews are difficult to assess. There is not a single attachment point anywhere on the binoculars so some form of clamp is maybe the only option?