StellarVue 15x63

I often view in light polluted conditions while walking my dog. Both street and car lights make my ability to dark adapt impossible. I own many pairs of binoculars-including IS binoculars. I must remark on the superiority of these StellarVue 15x63 for hand-held viewing. While they shake a bit too much to do such things as split eta Cassiopeiae, they are fantastic on clusters. Never has M13 shown more brightly, never has M92 been so clear and never has M39 filled me with such awe until my hand-held, yes hand held views of the above. I'm 63 years old but the optics are of such quality and the ability to focus so fail-safe that I found these a perfect joy to use. The wide field was of such quality that there was almost a kidney bean effect that was totally non disturbing.
These are on sale now and they are of superior quality. I'm looking forward to for my first views of M45.
p.s. Not only was the Coathanger very bright even under light polluted skies, it was quite easy to locate with these binoculars.
p.s.s.I have no particular attachment to StellarVue other than owning a few of their products.

I've heard some others comment the same about the SV 15x63. I have not had a chance to try a pair of these.

Isn't this one of the models that has a 70mm objective with a masking ring to knock it down to 63mm. If that is the case, that in itself would help improve edge sharpness, at least to a small degree. Although it gets a 10% gain in edge sharpness at a 19% loss of light, a big expense to pay.

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