> One other consideration for watching LEO satellites (or anything in > motion) is field of view, and within other constraints, wider field > of view is better! Also, if you need to wear eyeglasses while using > binocs, you need longer "eye relief". Whenever I use my telescope or binoculars, I never wear my glasses. I don't see a difference between using my glasses or not, so I just leave them off (until I look up at the sky naked-eye. I'll take my glasses out with me into the field, of course, my not to the telescope or binoculars). By the way, I use 7x35's for satellite observations. In my moderately-polluted skies, I usually get +6 in a dark sky, +7 on a very good night, and +8 on the best night possible at my location. I usually only look for satellites +4.5 or brighter. After twilight is past, there isn't much difference between a +1 satelllite, and a +4 satellite. They are both very bright and spectacular. The 7x35's were bought 10 years ago for about $40 US from a manufacturer that is not well known for optical quality. But they still work well. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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