{"id":1282,"date":"2025-12-29T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:41:16","slug":"milky-way-spacewalking-a-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way spacewalking: a video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spacewalking with a binocular chair is leisurely cruising in star fields, totally immersed. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>you\u2019re in a comfortable reclining chair with access to the entire sky<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you\u2019re using both eyes, up close to the eyepieces and perfectly aligned with them, in a large field of view<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you\u2019re looking straight through to a non-inverted view (unlike through most telescopes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you\u2019re very finely adjusting the view in any direction with a slight touch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you\u2019re using low or medium magnification, to gain perspective and to see spatial relationships<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your view is steady, due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/?p=1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">stable mount<\/a> and the comfortable viewing position<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you have easy high elevation viewing, where it\u2019s generally clearer and darker (less effective atmospheric thickness)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Like in a virtual reality cockpit\u2026. but slow\u2026 just floating in the star fields!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shown below is like what\u2019s seen when a bino-chair is cruising in star fields. Of course the actual view is more immersive and 3D, with shimmering pin-point stars, especially on a dark transparent night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 820 \/ 720;\" width=\"820\" controls src=\"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cruising_crop_hb.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacewalking with a binocular chair is leisurely cruising in star fields, totally immersed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-with-sidebar","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,21,30,28,26],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bino-chair-observing","tag-binocular-chair","tag-binocular-mount","tag-binocular-stargazing","tag-binoculars-for-astronomy","tag-hold-binoculars-steady"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milkywaylounge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}