Timeline for Binoculars 10x50 in light polluted place
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| Jun 30, 2022 at 7:58 | comment | added | uhoh | @walen yes I see what you mean! | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 7:51 | comment | added | walen | @uhoh "with decent skies" → Yeah, that's the issue. OP said they are in a heavily light-polluted location, Bortle 7. My comment comes from using my 10x50 binocs and my uncle's 12-25x80 binocs in a Bortle 7-8 sky after sunset (dark enough to see the planets but barely any stars): first with 10x50, Saturn looked just like Venus; then with 25x80, I clearly saw there's something surrounding the planet. THEN with 10x50 again, yeah, I could "sense" something on the sides —but was I actually seeing it? Or was it just my brain "filling up the gaps" based on what it had just seen through the 25x80? | |
| Jun 29, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | uhoh | @walen with decent skies and old eyeballs you really do not need such crazy-big binoculars to resolve the rings. You can't see much but you can certainly be convinced they are there. I don't have particularly good eyesight but I can assure you that in my 8x42 binoculars (only 8x magnification, 42 mm aperture) I can resolve all four Galilean moons of Jupiter (if they're far enough away) and the two little bumps on the side of Saturn where its rings extend. | |
| Jun 29, 2022 at 8:55 | comment | added | walen | For Saturn's rings, you'd need at least a pair of 25x70 binocs: rings would appear as two bulges on the sides on the planet. With bigger lenses (20x80, 25x100) they would get clearer, but those binocs are too bulky to be used comfortably without a tripod -- and, if you're carrying a tripod anyways, you may as well carry a full telescope! | |
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| Jun 28, 2022 at 20:33 | comment | added | suburbicon | Thanks for answer, my location Bortle scale is 7, it seems I can see only limited objects. | |
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| Jun 28, 2022 at 18:47 | answer | added | JayFor | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 28, 2022 at 15:11 | comment | added | Ed V | Maybe get a hint by looking at Bortle scale and seeing how your viewing location might fall on that scale. This is rough, of course, but gives you a start. | |
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