Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Quality Lenses; Strong Construction; Works Well With Glasses

High magnification of 15x means that the Canon 15x50 IS unit will give

I've used these binoculars for astronomy and bird watching for about 2 weeks. They are outstanding, even without using the image stabilization. It's remarkable to experience how jitter vanishes when the stabilization is engaged: the moons of Jupiter pop out, and central peaks within large lunar...

If you are an astronomer, especially if you are one without a go-to scope, and you are in to looking at the ‘faint fuzzies' or deep sky objects, such as the Messier objects, you are also into star-hopping.

I love these binocs. I highly recommend them to anyone.

I spend my time looking at the moon through these binocs, which looks like you can reach out and touch it; I was amazed to see how clearly I can pick up Jupiter and its moons; I can even see conglomerations of starts.

There are no caps for the lenses and the caps for the oculars do not stay on very well; You can not change the batteries whilst the binocs are mounted on the tripod.

I love these binocs.

I spend my time looking at the moon through these binocs; which looks like you can reach out and touch it.

There are no caps for the lenses and the caps for the oculars do not stay on very well.

I had for some time been thinking about getting a good quality set of binoculars for astronomy and last year decided that the Canon 15x50 IS would be very suitable for my needs.

I bought the 15 x 50 IS binoculars primarily for plane spotting. I had previously used a pair of the 10 x mag Canon IS binoculars and was impressed with the optical quality.I have been using a pair of 12 x 50 bins and a 30 x 80 telescope for some years but wanted something a bit 'up market' that...

Easy to Use; Great Resolution

Carry Case; Price

Unrivalled powerful stable image, just needs strong hands to hold for long periods. Can't be beat for tripod free viewing of moving subjects.

Stable image for the super power; rugged for outdoors; good low light optics

Too big and heavy for small hands; eats batteries; IS image can drift

This is an amazing optical system. The IS System is stellar and for normal lighting, I highly recommend these binoculars. However, control of light in difficult circumstances is not up to the standard of the world-class (European) optics -- Zeiss and Swarovski, in particular.