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A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes and BinocularsBinocular Basics

A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes and Binoculars: Binocular Basics [It’s commonly recommended that before someone buys a telescope they should first get a good pair of binoculars. And with good reason! Not only are they much less expensive, and also are ultra-portable and always ready for immediate use, but they can provide views of the heavens unmatched by any telescope! This results primarily from their wonderfully wide fields of view—typically 5° or 6° (10- to 12 full-Moon diameters!) of sky in extent compared to the 1° fields of most telescopes even used at their lowest magnifications. There are also ultra-wide-field models that take in a staggering 10° of sky. Binoculars are ideal for learning your way around the heavens and for exploring what lurks beyond the naked-eye star patterns.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes and BinocularsBinocular Basics

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Springer New York
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© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
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978-1-4614-8732-6
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9 –16
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10.1007/978-1-4614-8733-3_2
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[It’s commonly recommended that before someone buys a telescope they should first get a good pair of binoculars. And with good reason! Not only are they much less expensive, and also are ultra-portable and always ready for immediate use, but they can provide views of the heavens unmatched by any telescope! This results primarily from their wonderfully wide fields of view—typically 5° or 6° (10- to 12 full-Moon diameters!) of sky in extent compared to the 1° fields of most telescopes even used at their lowest magnifications. There are also ultra-wide-field models that take in a staggering 10° of sky. Binoculars are ideal for learning your way around the heavens and for exploring what lurks beyond the naked-eye star patterns.]

Published: Sep 12, 2013

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