What arrived were Baigish binoculars, a Russian optics brand. The specs were 20X power with 50 mm objective lens aperture and a BAK4 prism FMC lens. I decided $35, free shipping & tracking, was not much of a wager on no-name binoculars working out. They offer plenty of binoculars, if often unnamed brands. I went to the online retailer,, based out of Singapore. I started looking at a few "name" binoculars and got a sense of the price spectrum and an overload of choices to wade through that led me to pursue, on the spur of the moment, a no-name, low-cost approach. So it was no hard decision for me to go with the lower commitment of a pair of binoculars price-wise. After all, Galileo’s telescope for discovery of Jupiter’s moons had a modest 20X power. The usual advice for someone not ready for a telescope is a pair of decent binoculars. In sum, it’s a stretch to justify an expensive telescope. When the fair weather of summer finally rolls around, there’s the late sunsets at our latitude of 45 plus degrees. Why spend that money for any backyard astronomy in Portland, Oregon? The opportunities are limited by light pollution buildings and trees blocking the horizon not to mention cloud-ridden, if not rainy, nights. Like an eight-inch Dobsonian telescope that costs the better part of a thousand bucks.īut then I started thinking cost-benefit. Originally, I thought I’d commit to this avocation by going big with the optics for my nighttime viewing.
After several months, I arrived at the decision of buying binoculars for some backyard astronomy.
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