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Just about all of us enjoy learning about the universe and looking at all of its celestial wonders through a telescope. It can be a lot of fun and educational at the same time. But when it comes to wanting to see more in the night sky than just observing with a single telescope, then that’s when you start to think about getting a bigger telescope or even a big pair of binoculars. Using two eyes to view the universe with is perhaps one of the most satisfying ways to enjoy doing visual astronomy. Using a pair of binoculars can certainly make your observing experience a lot more satisfying. But what about using a binoscope or binocular telescope to observe the heavens with?
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Butler, N. (2017). Why Binoscopes?. In: Building and Using Binoscopes. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46789-4_1
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