
Binoculars: Guides and Recommendations
Binoculars for Astronomy: Ultimate Guide to Selecting and Buying
Ordinary binoculars are your ideal "first telescope." And they're so versatile that even seasoned stargazers find them indispensable.

Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
Power and Aperture in Binoculars
They come in a wide range of apertures. But for astronomy, large aperture is only part of the story. High magnification is just as important when binoculars are used on a night sky that's not absolutely dark.

Binocular Blogs
Binocular stargazing has a peaceful, organic quality that's hard to achieve through a telescope. Here's a list of some blogs the author has written on this subject.

Binoculars: Guides and Recommendations
Binoculars vs. Starblast, Redux
How do 15x70 binoculars hold up against a genuinely inexpensive telescope?

Binoculars: Guides and Recommendations
Binoculars Part III: One Eye Versus Two
Binoculars are qualitatively different from telescopes with identical aperture.

Binoculars: Guides and Recommendations
Three Binoculars: Part II
Binoculars' strengths and weaknesses are intimately connected.

A Tale of Three Binoculars: Part I
There's a big difference between 10x50 and 15x70 binoculars.

Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
Testing Stargazing Binoculars
How do you choose the right binocular for stargazing? Here's our expert's easy-to-do, step-by-step test.

Binocular Basics: Glossary of Binocular Terms
Exit pupils. Eye relief. Image stabilization. What matters most for astronomers? Our expert explains it all.