Due to some recent financial setbacks, I've been forced to sell of most of my
binoculars. Life is like that, sometimes, but material things come and go. This is only a temporary situation.
As the optics shelf emptied, though, I began to wonder which of my
binoculars I would NOT allow to go to the auction block, as I was determined to keep one binocular. Life may be hard, but no way would I ever be without at least one
binocular. In the end, which binocular would I keep? Would it be one of my
birding binoculars? Would it be one of my
compact binoculars? Surely, I would keep one of these from the standpoint of practicality. After all, I used one of these binoculars on an almost daily basis.
Surprisingly, the one I could not part with was the one I least expected to keep when the purge began. It was my
astronomy binocular - my
Nikon Astroluxe 10x70. Guess I couldn't bear the thought of not going out on the patio on a dark night and exploring the night sky for open star clusters and nebulae with the big Nikon. It's such a special binocular and binocular astronomy is something just too close to my heart and, as always, I listen to my heart in all things.