How are M81 and M82 viewed from 10×50 binoculars?
Question by Cool Jazz: How are M81 and M82 viewed from 10x50 binoculars?
I checked M81 and M82 a few days ago using my 10x50 binoculars. I could locate them, but they looked like other regular stars to me. Is this normal?
In other words, what I can tell is only that they are there. But, nothing more than that... Probably, it is because of light pollution.
Best answer:
Answer by jonal
If they looked like stars why do you think they were M81 and M82. Stars don't have fuzzy edges if you've focused right and the optics are OK.
You need very dark skies to see any other than the central spot of those two.
I use 10x50 more than the big binos. Luckily I live on an island with very dark skies. This time of year unless you are far south the sky isn't really dark enough for much DSO observing, but those two are two of the better ones.
Get to darker skies if you're in town. You'll see more.
M31 appears twice as big as the Moon looks to the naked eye with decent 10x50 binos in a very dark sky.
Use your Viagra buy view of it as a judge of sky darkness.
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