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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2854923, member: 76194&quot;]These are only 7x50, so they should be fairly steady for the average person to hold by hand and stargaze. I plan to either lay back on my backyard table as I&#039;m staring up, or recline back in a chair. Either method should add extra stability.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually I&#039;d love to get 15x70 binoculars too and set them up on a camera mount for when I want extra magnification and still don&#039;t want to drag out the telescope. Binoculars of that size and weight would definitely require a mount, but would still be much lighter, faster, and easier to set up and cool down than a dobsonian telescope.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see now why binoculars are so popular with backyard astronomers. I shied away from the idea of binoculars because telescopes obviously allow for more precise detailed viewing. However, after relying only on the telescope, I can finally see why binoculars really make a lot of sense and are still very popular. With 10 minutes to drag out and set the telescope, and 20 minutes of cool down time before I can view anything (30 minutes for the complete setup), and another 10 minutes of breakdown time, I&#039;m finding binoculars (and not the telescope) are the way to go for weeknights. With only one or one and a half hours to view the sky before I have to go to sleep, cutting 40 minutes of setup time allows me to hunt multiple targets every night. Weekends though, the telescope is king as I have all the time in the world to go through the setup routine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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