RE: List of Messier objects.
January 8, 2019 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2019 at 11:31 am by Anomalocaris.)
If you have anything more than passing interest in star gazing through binoculars, it is well worth investing in a pair of image stabilized binoculars. They are pricy compared to low end binoculars, but well worth it.
Another secret - amateur optical star gazing or even photography actually is not very demanding of optical quality of the telescope or binoculars at all. Conventional terrestrial photography is far more demanding. So you can actually get impressively large and good quality amateur astronomy telescopes for the same amount of money as a moderate professional photographic zoom lens. Most even semi-serious amateur photographers will have 2-3 f/2.8 zoom lenses. Each one of the f/2.8 zoom lenses can buy you a high quality 6” cassagrain telescope with tripod and automatic star pointing, or a 10-12” Newtonian.
Another secret - amateur optical star gazing or even photography actually is not very demanding of optical quality of the telescope or binoculars at all. Conventional terrestrial photography is far more demanding. So you can actually get impressively large and good quality amateur astronomy telescopes for the same amount of money as a moderate professional photographic zoom lens. Most even semi-serious amateur photographers will have 2-3 f/2.8 zoom lenses. Each one of the f/2.8 zoom lenses can buy you a high quality 6” cassagrain telescope with tripod and automatic star pointing, or a 10-12” Newtonian.
