NIGHT VISION ASTRONOMY - Afocal Method 

Agreed. No picture could ever capture the detail your eye can see. I'm busy editing the main recap video now and I caught some fun stuff!

Thanks! Yeah seeing some of these galaxies this way is life changing.

Aether52 thanks! I’ll definitely be doing more videos on this sort of thing.

It’s a lot of fun! I think it’s hard to say it’s better than regular observing but it definitely does give you another perspective. 🤘😁

Image quality. There is no noise whatsoever when observing through a scope. I, and many others, prefer a darker noiseless image that shows detail instead of basically pure noise with barely any detail.

Awesome!! Welcome to the page!

Hey!! I don’t know the exact specs of his but I know they’re probably over 2500 FOM.

ridiculous spec on that tube!

@@DeepSkyDude SNR of 41 and 72 line pair yields a 2952 FOM. EBI of 0.5, this is truly an exceptional tube.

Toàn Nguyễn agreed. I actually don’t own any of this equipment yet. Still doing research and figuring out how I want to go about this.

You should have a big dobsonian like 16 inch or 18 to see like this but real colour without night vision it like silver cloud spiral galaxy

Mis KITKAT BOOM Boom I have a telescope 5 inch .😁

Agreed!!

Yeah that’s called scintillation. It’s a by product of night vision devices. While you can spend more money to lessen the effect, it will pretty much be in there no matter what night vision device you’re using. I don’t find it distracting at all while viewing. Your brain can be trained to ignore it pretty easily.

live stacking

I think it's a spanner wrench.

Yeah if you turn the gain up you’ll get more scintillation. In order to record video with a phone’s camera you really need the gain most of the way up. For visual use you can keep the gain very low and still get a great result.

Nah this is a completely different thing. It isn’t IR, it’s visible light that has been amplified.

That’s a great question. I’ll ask him when I talk to him next.

Hahaha Right?! I NEED to know who he bought that from.

I think it was the 7nm.

@@DeepSkyDude Thank you

Good question. These videos seem to be stabilized fairly good, Id assume that would be possible. But I'm not sure how long exposures work with NVG's, might not make a big difference but I don't know it very well could.

Yeah Ed’s is a super high quality one. Mine isn’t that good but it’s close.

I have a 0.0 Ebi tube. Would that be very beneficial to night vision astronomy?

idk about the rest but here's a link to the same night vision device he had (PVS-14) you can configure it the way you want tube wise to get the same setup (He was using L3 WP unfilmed) steeleindustries.com/product/an-pvs-14/

Not too sure?? I never really thought about stacking the videos of deep sky stuff before.

Dude, here in europe 2600 FOM high end night vision would cost about 10000eur

high quality NV here can cost up to 5 grand for a monocular if you want the best

Or very dark something...

You should be able to do it with a hydrogen alpha or hydrogen beta filter. You’ll need one with a band pass of 7nm.

Yeah those satellites sure are smart these days! 😆

@@DeepSkyDude can you upload some of the objects emitting an air signature but not moving in a traditional orbital pattern?

@@tfunai8164 I haven’t captured anything out of the ordinary in all my years of doing this nearly full time. Sorry. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@DeepSkyDude Well with a telescope aimed at stars, with a tiny FOV you ain t gonna see much zooming past will you! lol. Ive been sky watching for 10 years, and once in a blue moon, I will catch round objects in fighter formations travelling much faster than satellites. Altitude is hard to gauge, but its not at commercial airliner heights that's for sure. I once witnessed a satellite looking object, do a right angle 90 deg turn without losing its forward velocity. These happenings are super rare, which proves to my mind it is rare - and very real.

The night vision device itself is a PVS-14. Those can be ordered from many retailers. The attachment stuff is all Tele-Vue. They also sell PVS-14’s as well. I’d give them a call and see what they have first.

@@DeepSkyDude Thank you. Quick question, if I could only get the PVS-14 would that allow me to see more star's?

@@petergriffin383 it depends on the ambient light pollution. In the city the NVG’s amplify the light pollution along with the stars at 1x so sometimes it doesn’t help. In non light polluted areas, it absolutely increases the stars you can see. It’s wild.

I'd check steele industries, NGI, or TNVC

here's a link to steele I had them tabbed steeleindustries.com/product/an-pvs-14/

That’s NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy. Definitely one of my all time favs!!

That's a super nice telescope. Nice video. I live in Pennsylvania. At 3:00 am directly above my house I see something like that with just a PVS 14 gen 3 white phosphorus very thin filmed. ( all PVS 14s are filmed. The real thin filmed ones they advertise filmless but they have a very thin film) PVS 14. Its directly above my house . I have to lay on my deck to look at it or my neck starts hurting. What can what I am seeing be?

@@briankudalis9572 more than likely you’re seeing Andromeda. M31 is another name it’s known by.

Thankyou that's what it looks like.

@@briankudalis9572 so I did some digging and actually not all PVS14 are filmed. Thin filmed and unfilmed are two different things. Thin filmed doesn’t work well for astronomy at all.

Nah we didn’t forget. This video was about the night vision. 🤘

The pics are usually posted on my instagram and Facebook accounts. Head over there to see those. The phone was being used to record this video. lol

Yep! Designed and built from scratch.

@@DeepSkyDude gotta love the passion! did you ever post a video of the same night, viewing through the NV?

daslolo oh yes. All the nights are together in the Okie Tex Star Party 2019 video. 😎

@@DeepSkyDude love it, heading right there

I did. That’s how you film it once you amplify the light. 😆😆

This video wasn't about seeing the night vision in action. This video was made to show the method. It's right there in the title...

LOL. Umm. Have you ever tried to image with an astrocam on an ALT/AZ mount? You need field de-rotators, auto-guiding and then you have to process the image the next day. You don’t have to do any of that with this set up. This set up is meant mainly for visual use with the iPhone as a secondary accessory. Lol that thought never crossed your mind, did it? 😆😆😆 There’s plenty of “logic and reason” for this. It’s fun and it’s a different perspective when you see it visually. And your analogy of the VW is laughable. Clearly you’re someone who doesn’t get it. 🤷🏼‍♂️

For visual use man.