I have to disagree here.<br />I often spend quite a while perusing the MIlky Way with binoculars. In fact, in light polluted skies, one way to find the Milky Way is to just sweep back and forth across the area, and when you see thousands of stars together, that's it! Of course it helps to narrow down the area to look a bit, but you can get lost just gawking at all the stars, the concentrations and dust lanes.<br /><br />The Andromeda galaxy is easier to find since the light is concentrated, but is really just a smudge of light in binocs. WHereas, from the inside, you can see tens of thousands of individual stars in the Milky Way. Dozens of globular clusters as well.<br /><br />I love the MW in binoculars or a wide field scope (like my 25 year old Astrosacn 2001)<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>