Hi Ray,
I have a Celestron 9x63 Ultima (made in Japan), and a Celestron 25x100
SkyMaster (pretty sure made in China).
The optics IMO are better in the Ultimas, but the SkyMasters are just
fine IMO. They do have a fair bit of false color on really bright
objects (7.5 on a 10 point scale) like Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon.
Everything else looks great. The main thing I dislike about them is
each eye focuses separately. I picked them up barely used on
Astromart a while back for $275.
I had them out at MB this past Wednesday on a Universal Astronomics
Unistar Light mount and Oberwek tripod for NEAT viewing. Several
people commented that it was the best view of the comet they had all
evening.
I have a Universal Astronomics Unimount Basic parallelogram mount
coming on Monday to replace the Unistar mount, which I'm hoping will
make the SkyMasters a lot more comfortable to use [BTW is anyone
interested in buying the Unistar Light :) ].
Feel free to stop by and look them over if we meet somewhere!
-Lance
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray D <rpduval@mac.com>
To: The Astronomy Connection <sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 11:39:18 -0700
Subject: Re: [TAC] Apogee 20x100mm binocs with filters?
> Just curious - is there something inherently wrong with Celestron's
> SkyMaster series of binocs? I paid $66 for my 15x70's from Amazon
> and
> am very pleased with the entire package (though the ep cover could
> be
> better designed). That said, the 25x100's are $262 at Amazon right
> now.
> Anyway, I was just wondering if there was something I should know
> about
> the Celestron binocs (like the glass turns opaque after 6 months or
> something)?
>
> RPD
>
>
> On Saturday, May 15, 2004, at 10:56 US/Pacific, Michael Portuesi
> wrote:
>
> > I just ordered a pair of the Apogee 12x60 binoculars with
> > the built-in nebula filters. These are smaller versions of the
> > 20x100 binocs people are discussing here. I was lured
> > into them by the ads in S&T and the low price. I wanted
> > something a little bigger than the 7x50 binocs I've had
> > for years.
> >
> > The cost was $100, including shipping. They arrived
> > yesterday. You can blame me for the clouds this weekend :-)
> >
> >
> <loads of snip>
>
> > Michael Portuesi
> > San Francisco, CA
> > mailto:portuesi {at} jotabout {dot} com
> >
>
Received on Sat May 15 13:27:08 2004