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Originally Posted by 911 Rod
I don't know squat, but ...couldn't you just use night vision glasses?
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All good. I have a lot of NVG hours flying helicopters...old stuff. There is some seriously cool NVG/thermal googles out there but I don't want a mortgage.
Night vision devices are not "see through", or glasses. What you are looking at is a chemical representation:
All Night Vision products amplify existing light, allowing you to see in dark conditions too dark for the naked eye. Night Vision goggles, monoculars and binoculars collect and amplify existing light through the objective lens, which is then focused on the image intensifier. Inside the intensifier, a photocathode is "excited" by the light and converts the photon energy into electrons. These electrons accelerate across an electrostatic field inside the intensifier and strike a phosphor screen (like a green monochrome TV screen) which emits an image that you can see. It is the acceleration of electrons, which provides gain and enhances the image.
I want to shoot what I am looking at, hence the scope.
Thermal is still ahead.