In your question you mentioned that you guess what you need are binoculars that are small and light, by this I imagine that you would not want to carry around a tripod as well! Image shake could be a problem as most really powerful binoculars like astronomical binoculars, would be used with the aid of a tripod, to keep the image still.
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I think that a limited field of view does not really apply to a shuttle launch as you should easily be able to lock onto your target and keep it in your view quite easily. The main ones are reduced field of view, reduced depth of view and image shake. This is not to say that the biggest magnification means the best binoculars, there are some down sides to large magnification. This is true for why you would want binoculars for any use, but with a shuttle launch I do feel that a reasonably large magnification would be useful, although from what I have read, if you are going to the viewing area, the launch is quite impressive even without binoculars. Obviously the main reason you need binoculars to view the launch is to see something far away (and getting further away all the time). I unfortunately have never been to a rocket or shuttle launch and so the advice I below in not from first hand experience, but instead from research and by the basic principals of would it is you need the binoculars to do. Hope you can help AnswerĪs I write this article, the Space shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off today to deliver parts, including a ‘window’ that will give astronauts a 360-degree view to the International Space Station.
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I guess what I’m looking for needs to be small, light and sturdy. A question this week comes from someone who is lucky enough to be going to see a space shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral and would like to know what would be the best binoculars to take with: Questionįantatsic website, very informative but I’m quite new to binoculars and I’m after some for a very specific reason – the launch of a Space Shuttle.