Since I don't know the answer to Larry's question, I want to start another thread.
In the past I have owned two Denk standards and a couple of TVs, all of which performed admirably in the dobs I was using them in. I finally got out of binoviewing because I had wayyyyy too much money tied up in high end eyepiece pairs and the binoviewers themselves when I considered the amount of time I got out to observe, and the fact that I actually seemed to prefer deep sky in monovision.
Fast forward to now...I am about to take possession of my first real SCT; a NS 11GPS, which has me thinking about binoviewers again. In thinking about all of the current choices, I remembered an old bino that Celestron used to offer that was only useable on SCTs. I believe that it was actually made by Baader Planetarium. Does anyone remember that bino? Anyone ever get a chance to use one? Since they come up for sale every once in a great while at pretty good prices, I was wondering if it was worthwhile, or if I would be better off with one of the current models, be it one of the many Chinese models, or a higher end version.
BTW, Larry, I liked my Denks and TV binos very much back when I was using them, but I have never used one of the Chinese versions, so I can't offer a comparison.
Doug
Midway, FL
In the past I have owned two Denk standards and a couple of TVs, all of which performed admirably in the dobs I was using them in. I finally got out of binoviewing because I had wayyyyy too much money tied up in high end eyepiece pairs and the binoviewers themselves when I considered the amount of time I got out to observe, and the fact that I actually seemed to prefer deep sky in monovision.
Fast forward to now...I am about to take possession of my first real SCT; a NS 11GPS, which has me thinking about binoviewers again. In thinking about all of the current choices, I remembered an old bino that Celestron used to offer that was only useable on SCTs. I believe that it was actually made by Baader Planetarium. Does anyone remember that bino? Anyone ever get a chance to use one? Since they come up for sale every once in a great while at pretty good prices, I was wondering if it was worthwhile, or if I would be better off with one of the current models, be it one of the many Chinese models, or a higher end version.
BTW, Larry, I liked my Denks and TV binos very much back when I was using them, but I have never used one of the Chinese versions, so I can't offer a comparison.
Doug
Midway, FL
