The main problem with binoculars is that you need an exceptionally steady hand for them to be of any use for star gazing. You also need good neck muscles to look up for very long if the elevation is high. Because the disc moves out of sight quickly on a telescope, you need to either learn to readjust it quickly - which takes a little practice and skill - or to get a little tracking motor, which I am told does not need to be expensive. I think what I really want to do one day is to go to a proper observatory where someone else deals with all that and I just get to look through the eyepiece!