Scooterpilot from United States, CA Public Profile

When the bino's and tripod arrived they were packaged well and there was no observable physical damage. Everything looked good!

I purchased the binoculars with hope of learning the stars/planets in the night sky. First, let me say the tripod is pretty much useless unless the object you want to view is not more that 15 degrees above the horizon. To locate the north star, I had to knell down (sitting in a chair or bending over to look through the bingo's was not an option) to see the object.

When I looked at the moon the chromatic aberration (CA) was intense. There was an extreme green/blue ring around the moon and I could not get rid of it. Furthermore, the optics on the right side of bino's were not nearly as clear as the left side. You could close you right eye, view the moon and then close your left eye and see the difference in the clarity.

I did some more research and found other people had the same problem with their bino's. They returned the product and received a replacement and the bino's worked fine. Some people had to return the product more than once to get a satisfactory pair of Skymaster's.

Good Luck