SingAstro

Hi, I agree with denebman that 'coating colour' does not relate directly to light transmission efficiency. The common perception that red coating is not advisable for binoculars comes more from the nature-watching community. Most nature watchers are not in favour of red coatings because the colour w...

Hey,
I found one more fabulous website for beginners to read:-
http://bill.nineplanets.org/

Happy exploring!

Congrats, Kay Heem.

It is a superb article... so good that I repeated it in my own forum post, linking it back to Chee Chien's sticky post as well.

Thanks for the hard work which benefits all newcomers to amateur astronomy.

Anyway, when the sky is clear, you bring the book to an open area at around 9pm and you find the constellation, Orion, in the book. Look at the three stars that form the straight line... the Orion Belt in the book and look straight up overhead and you'll see that same three stars in the sky... and ...

WeiXing,
These lecture notes are so useful that I repeated your post in my own forum post, linking it back to this sticky post as well.

Thanks a million!

I din't know a Bino can be used for star gazing... Perhaps I'll try to use it for star-peeping tonite. Perhaps I'll need a compass?... Meanwhile, I can try to figure out some star maps first. For beginning amateur astrologers starting out with binoculars, I find the 3D realtime sky-rendering softwa...

The selfless sharing and helpfulness is truly evident in this community. We beginners are already feeling very much at home with patient mentoring from the 'old birds' (or shall I say, 'navigation stars') here :) The problem is, he doesn't like Astro, no interest on stars/moon etc... and he didn't r...

Know what? Guys, I'm really touched and glad to have you ppl to guide me thru, to provide me informations etc... Agree! The people here are extremely helpful. I'm very new to astronomy too. I have a 12 X 42 bino which serves me well for bird-watching and beginning bino astro. I started with looking...