I have experience with low power bincoulars

From: Andrew Pierce ^lt;apierce_at_No-Spam>
Date: Tue May 20 2008 - 11:05:43 MST

My dad gave my some Bushnell sports binos a few years ago. I never thought
to use them for astronomy. I'll see if I can find them.

Andrew Pierce

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Robert Ayers wrote:
> When I looked for low-power, the 5x25s were the best
> and lowest power astro-type binoculars I saw.
>
> Those 4x30 should have a bigger exit pupil. ...

from both a few webstore pages, and Bushnell's own site, those "4x30"
are apparently actually 4x21.

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