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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2854989, member: 76194&quot;]Here is something for you guys to ponder over. The 7x50 binos I just purchased will allow someone a far better view than Galileo&#039;s original telescope with 8x magnification, poor quality handpolished glass lenses with no coating whatsoever, and a rather abysmal .67 inch aperture. Yet Galileo Galilei somehow managed to discover the first heavenly bodies anyone had discovered since antiquity with all that limitation...the 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter.</p><p><br /></p><p>His much refined second scope allowed him 14x magnification with a 1 inch aperture, and still terrible handpolished optics with no coating (the optical aberrations must have been terrible). Yet he was able to study the phases of Venus with it somehow, and prove that Venus revolved around the Sun, which means the Earth must also revolve around the sun</p><p><br /></p><p>His best telescope had x30 magnification, but the small aperture and horrible aberrations were still serious limitations.Yet with that he was able to tell Saturn had something around it, but couldn&#039;t quite make out that it was a ring system.&nbsp; But think about how amazing it was that he accomplished all of that despite a small aperture, and primitive lenses with chromatic and spherical aberration so bad that even a&nbsp; $50 toy telescope today would render clearer images.</p><p><br /></p><p>If that doesn&#039;t amaze you, consider this....Galileo&#039;s best telescope would have been vastly inferior to this 20x80 set of astronomy binoculars. Unlike Galileo&#039;s telescopes, you can actually discern the rings of Saturn with this enough to tell it is a ring system. Let that sink in for a second...poor old Galileo would have killed to have the clarity and quality a $120 set of astronomy binoculars can achieve today, but he was still able to learn so much about the heavens with what he had to work with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, this will probably be my second set of binos. I&#039;ll probably buy them next month. I haven&#039;t even received my first and I&#039;m already drooling over these. LOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]678447[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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