10x25s not so great

[Agelesslink]

hi everyone. i have a newfound love for astronomy and my wife's noticed. She's tried to support me by buying my some binos, but unfortunately they're 10x25s.lol i've tried looking at jupiter, but it just looks like a big star which wouldnt have been bad if i couldve seen a couple of satellites. anyway just wanted to let you guys know what i was working with

[Mick UK]

After reading all the excellent reviews on here about the Celestron 15 x70's, and needing a new pair of bino's myself, ive just ordered a pair from FLO at the excellent price of £50.

I think these would suit you perfectly rather than the 10x25's.

Celestron

[Doug]

Hi and welcome to SGL

Mick is correct 15x70 are good for what you want

you can always sell the 10x25 on ebay or Astro buy and sell Good luck with your new found love

Doug

Essex

[Parus major]

As a birdwatcher, I'd say a 25mm objective is a little small for all but the brightest days so they certainly a little small for bino astronomy. Not without uses, though.

[Abell76]

Well, Sir Knight

Kiss the beloved wife, she ment good - and use the 10x25 for hiking or checking when the mail man comes

Get a nice pair of 10x50s and a tripod...or the 15x70s mentioned above AND a tripod

You will find your observations more relaxing if the binos are mounted.

Also, you can reach more and trickier targets - between 10x50s +mount and handheld 15x70s I´d ALLWAYS pick the first option....

[brantuk]

I have the 15x70's and they are very good. The price at FLO right now makes them a real bargain (I paid £85 a couple of yrs ago). As mentioned above - you will need to prop your elbows with them cos they get a bit weighty after a few mins. A tripod is a good idea - just a cheap photographic one will do and an adptor to mount them on it.

Cheers

[part timer]

Whilst you've got the 10x25's you can still make use of them.

The moon is great at 10x. Also I could just manage the andromeda galaxy and severn sisters in a similar pair that I used to have (chopped them up to make a finderscope and an eyepiece for my first scope!).

You will be able to scan through some star fields and start to see a hell of lot of stars that arn't there without the bins.

25mm isn't big enough for dedicated astronomy (you can get fairly good 10x50's for £30 or less these days by the way!) but you can use them and still see a surprisingly large nuber of objects.

[Agelesslink]

thanks for the heads up everyone.definately gonna check both options when i get a little dough. BTW whats FLO??

[brantuk]

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[Thunder]

While waiting for my binos to arrive i came accross a similar sized pair in a draw somewhere in my house, shame the moon isn't coming up till i am at work at the moment I did turn them to jupiter, but not sure if my eyes decieved me in showing 2 small points of light to the right of jupiter (in the place you'd expect to find 2 moons)

[Agelesslink]

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o ok. thanks. i had been going to telescopes.com