Binoculars are a great way to get into stargazing: small, portable, lightweight, easy to operate, wide field of view. What's not to like? Well, those qualities also make it difficult to stabilize an image, and a tripod isn't always the right solution.
But Alan MacRobert, a Sky & Telescope senior editor, has come up with a do-it-yourself frame that I think I'm going to try. Ingenious.