Category: Observing
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Comfortable Binocular Viewing
Stephen Tonkin summarizes what goes into comfortable binocular viewing.
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Assisting new bino-chair users, e.g., at a star party
The April Starfest at the university, before and after it got dark: Assisting new users: Before the new user sits in the bino-chair: Then the new user gets into the bino-chair and … Other advice:
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A quick 360° by 90° sky tour with a high-zoom fieldscope: a video
using a binocular chair with a 20-60X fieldscope
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An experience with a big bino-chair
Sky & Telescope contributing editor Matt Wedel wrote about this experience while sitting under the night sky in a big bino-chair at the Three Rivers Foundation Messier Marathon, in his blog…
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What is: “Spacewalking in the Milky Way”?
It is leisurely cruising in star fields, totally immersed; here’s why….