Celestron SkyMaster Pro ED Binoculars

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Celestron's latest SkyMaster porroprism binoculars feature ED glass and eyepieces that accept 1.25" astronomy filters 🙂 

Celestron SkyMaster Pro ED binoculars

Available as 7x50, 15x70 & 20x80. 

 

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Steve Ringwood writing for Astronomy Now Magazine.

"What I was looking forward to was a shot at the Moon. Like a backlit tree, there is no more fearsome challenge to a pair of binoculars than the blinding contrast of the lunar surface. Uncompromising weather thwarted my attempts at this, the final challenge, until quite late in the review, when at last a fine, deep-blue evening revealed a five-day old crescent.

Deploying the 20 ×80mm, the view was simply mind-blowing, once my eyes had become accustomed to the blinding light (note to self, need two ND filters!). Careful focusing elicited incredible resolution as the Moon swam within its generous 3.4-degree field. 
Near the centre of the Moon, abutting the terminator, the walls of the crater Theophilus appeared to rise high above the surrounding terrain. Astonishingly, I could even make out the broken peak at its centre. Not far away, sunlight grazing the coastline' of Sinus Asperitatis could be made out, snaking its way deep into the unlit hemisphere.

Great colour-free definition was also evidenced by the horns of the crescent, each piercing the darkness down to the finest point without a glimmer of false colour.
Moving away from the terminator to the sunward hemisphere, the glaring smooth arc of the globe was a scimitar sharp curve that met the dark background sky with nothing in between. I have expensive eyepieces that can't even do that!"  

Read the full review (pdf)