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In article <82253@ut-emx.uucp>, kuehne@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (kuehne) wrote:
< 
< All this jabber about lighting 'systems' reminds me that lighting the
road
< is a very inefficient way of seeing in the dark.  It certainly is a
pitiful
< way of doing things.  Why splash tons of light all over creation just to
get
< back a few photons into your eyeball, especially when star-light on a
moonless
< night provides enough light for good vision? 
< 
< The REAL way to see in the dark is with an image intensifier.  Even now,
there
< are off-the-shelf second-generation light-weight portable hand-held
monocular
< image intensifiers that amplify ambient light levels by >15,000 times
with a
< continous operating time of 24 hours on a couple of AA batteries.  Wire
one of
< these things into a Bell helmet as a flip-down accessory, and you've got
a
< first-class way of seeing in the dark.  Check out an Edmund Scientific
catalog
< or similar rag.

I just happen to have an Edmund Scientific catalog handy and for those
interested in these things, the cheapest is a Fujinon Starscope with a gain
of greater than 10e3 and a tube life of over 2,000 hours.

The downside is that it is a hand held model and is a monocular. BTW the
thing is listed for $2,299.95.

U.S. Cavalry, a pseudo military surplus catalog, has a binocular model
which they claim is used by the military and law enforcement which is
listed for $4,999.95. There is an opitonal facemask to allow hands free use
available for $699.95.

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