Anybody familiar with Binoculars & Telescopes

[Little6pack]

I am trying to figure out what is better for nightime use? Does the number mean anything in reguards to Night or day use or is the numbers just for distance?
Or does the bigger the lens the more light is sucked in making it better.

I picked up a pair of big pair of binoculars with huge lens optics. The unit is a jacobs & say 7x50 Field 375 ft @ 1000 yds.

I also have a small telescope that is 10x -30x D=30 zoom

The binocs work better at night than the telescope?

 

[Pronto]

None of your neighbors are worth looking at.

 

[Little6pack]

None of your neighbors are worth looking at.

BUT YOUR MASSAGE THERAPIST NEIGHBOR IS WORTH LOOKING AT. How about sharing the VID you took of her THONG??? Share it with TURBO BROTHERS:biggrin:

 

[Gary Wells]

The bigger the objective lens, (front lens), the better light gathering ability. As a general rule, variable power binocs are not quite as effective for night time use as stationary power binocs.

 

[Little6pack]

The bigger the objective lens, (front lens), the better light gathering ability. As a general rule, variable power binocs are not quite as effective for night time use as stationary power binocs.

So is that why I see hunters using stationary binoc or monoculars?

 

[cruzn57]

no expert.

but something to do with coated lense, ( thats why the red looking lense)
allow low light to be more visable, and the larger the better, but if there to powerful , as in more than 10x, there hard to hold steady freehand,
usually the more expensive, the better, but look into comparing to each other.

 

[Gary Wells]

So is that why I see hunters using stationary binoc or monoculars?

Single power seems to be the choice of well seasoned hunters / outdoorsmen. I don't think that a variable power offers the clarity that a single power does.

 

[Top Speed]

Check out the binoculars with image stabilization. Expensive but worth it IMO.

 

[tjthorson]

You dont really say what you are trying to look at - that might help.

For Christmas this year, Santa brought my 12 year old son this:

Meade ETX-80AT Refractor Telescope - Free Shipping - OPT Telescopes

He was having so much fun looking at the moon with the 40x Tasco my grandmother had bought me as a kid, I decided to get him one a little more decent.

This thing is killer - nice and clear shots of the rings of saturn. Set it to north, it locates two stars - you center them, and then just flip through the menu to what you want to see. Pick Saturn - the telescope automatically finds it (motors move the scope) - and then keeps moving it to track the item you are looking at. It is WAYYY cool.

Works good for terrestrial stuff too - but kinda big and bulky to be staring in your neighbors windows - let alone the fact 450x is probably overkill for that. You dont need closeups of the pimples....