can i see rings of saturn and galaxies through a 20X60 (20X) binocular?

Question

and can i take astronomical photos through binocular eyepieces by a digital camera?please if you amatuer astronomers have taken such photos send me.

is 20X magnification enough?

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is Yes!
But consider a couple of other aspects please.
A 20X60 pair of Binoculars is pretty big. You would need some kind of a mount to hold them steady. Most folks have trouble holding even 10X binoculars steady enough to see things.
There are commercially made mounts available from dealers such as Orion, but they are not cheap!
Luckily there are free designs available on the web which you can build yourself if you are at all handy.
Imaging through Binocular eyepieces is possible but very tricky. You might get frustrated in a hurry, but it might be fun for you to give it a try.
BTW, you'll be able to see the Andromeda Galaxy with your binoculars, but most galaxies are quite dim. Where Binoculars really shine is wide angle objects, such as the star clouds in Sagittarius, Open Clusters and things of that nature which are too big to be seen in their entirety with the narrow field of view of a Telescope. Most of us carry a set of binoculars into the field in addition to our Telescopes for just such wide angle views.
Good Luck !

Adolph

Answer 2

20x is enough to barely make out the rings of Saturn, assuming your eyes (and the binoculars) are sharp. You will certainly be able to see M31 (Andromeda galaxy). In a dark sky you should be able to see a number of the brighter galaxies, such as M51, M81, and M82. You won't see any detail to speak of - that takes a large (12" - 18" aperture) telescope.

Binoculars like those are great for scanning the summer Milky Way. You will find all sorts of interesting objects in the Sagittarius-Scorpius region of the sky. Binoculars of this size need to be tripod-mounted for best results.

You can take pictures through the eyepiece, but I'm not sure how much you'll see. The magnification is too low for planets, and unless you use a tracking mount and long exposures, or stack a lot of short exposures, you won't gather enough light for deep space objects.

Answer 3

20x Binoculars

Answer 4

I can see the rings of Saturn with my 16x binocular, and you can see Andromeda with your bare eyes. 20x60 is a good binocular, by the way, but not necessarily for astrononomy. 10x80 would be better, since most astronomical objects require high light gathering, not high magnification.

Answer 5

I can bearly see them with my F1100 X 102mm telescope. By the way, tonight, around 10:00 pm, you can see Venus and Saturn about the distance of a full moon apart. Venus is crescent shaped due to its position.

Answer 6

Yup

Answer 7

Barely. 40x would be better, but you can see them.

Answer 8

no