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Kronos 30x90 Mod. II

These Kronos Russian-made binoculars are actually 30 power x 90 mm. I bought them from bigbinoculars.com and they arrived in good collimation. The oculars are mounted at a 45 degree angle, which makes for comfortable astro viewing. The oculars are individual focus, and provide a sharp focus, even with my near sightedness and slight astigmatism. The view is flat pretty much across the 2 degree field of view. The 15 mm eye relief is comfortable without glasses, but the eye cups don't easily fold down, so someone who needs to wear glasses to obseve might want to remove the cups. They weigh 12 lbs, so they need a sturdy tripod and especially a heavy-duty head. I use a Bogen 3226 tripd , with a Bogen 501 video head, which works nicely. You can just make out the rings of Saturn and equitorial banding on Jupiter. I especailly like looking using these to view star clusters. Despite the dimmer views of a 3mm exit pupil, the 30 power teases out a lot of detail. If you obtain a pair, two recommendations: get a red dot reflex sight to aim them, and since the objectives ar very close to the end of the instrument, use dew shields (I use the flexible dew shields from Virgo Astronomics.) A pleasure to use: highly recommended.

Overall Rating: 10
Weight: 9 (Veritable Vote)
Date: 11/11/2001 01:38:12 pm PST
By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.133.69)
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