Roger, I use a Night Owl Explorer NOCX3 night vision scope to observe sats and other things. It appears that the faintest stars I can see with it are the same magnitude that I can just make out with my 7 x 35 binoculars. The magnification is a lot less than the binoculars of course, (3.1 X on the scope) but the vision through the scope far from good compared to a binocular view. SPECS: GENERATION: 1 MAGNIFICATION: 3.1X RANGE OF VIEW: 575' RESOLUTION: 24 LP/MM POWER: 3V LITHIUM BATTERY (NOT INCL) WEIGHT: 16OZ Dimensions: 7.2 X 2.3 X 3.2" FOV@1000yds: 628' FOCUSING RANGE: 5'+ For sat viewing I would not spend the money on this unit anyway. Tom Iowa USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger <roger.in.eugene@gmail.com> To: SeeSat-L <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:00:25 -0500 (CDT) Subject: night vision Has anybody had the opportunity to try out night vision goggles for satellite observing? I was watching a program on TV the other day, they had some shots looking through some NV goggles (trying not to type googles). I recognized a very bright Pleiades system and realized the goggles might help out seeing faint objects. I've never looked through a pair, but the view could be grainy (not sure if the grainyness is a video recorder byproduct or the goggle problem.) -- Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111020/7c966bbc/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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