My Gen 2 Night vision

My gen 2 image intensifier tube. The model is MX-9644/UV and is from the AN/PVS-4. I had it focused to infinity, which is why it might get blurry at some spots.

I was also just holding my camera up to the tube's view. It looks much clearer in real life. I also have two other tubes, both are a lot better than this one. They don't have the spots and have much less noise in the image.

Sorry for the bad aspect ratio, I don't know what's up with it.

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• intensifier
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[ClarenceBoddicker87]

Cool Video. I've got an AN/PVS-2 & it has the same (but more of them) bright little dots of light floating around on the screen. I call them "sparklies". Is that what they mean by noise in the image? Where's the reticle & what are those dark spots in the center? How does aspect ratio effect the image? Thanks

[Phygar1]

@ClarenceBoddicker87 Yes, that is what I mean by noise. As to why it does not have a reticle, I am not sure. The dark spots in the middle are marks from lasers, which is how I got the tubes. I have other tubes that don't have these blemishes, but I use this tube more often because it has already been exposed to so much light that it doesn't matter what I do with it. I will use the other tubes if I actually need them. The aspect ration just squashes it into an oval.

[ryanperry90]

what is it pvs4?

[Phygar1]

@ryanperry90 Yes.  The tube is labeled MX-9644/UV.

[DanFrederiksen]

try fixing it to the camera and try looking at stars and planes

[JetJockey87]

@ClarenceBoddicker87

Those little moving white flecks you see in the centre of the tube is a phenomenon known as 'photon death', what you are seeing is the ambient light particles entering the front of the image intensifier tube and crowding the front of the tube, it usually occurs more frequently with tube age and is unavoidable. My Gen 1 scope has them, but you really have to concentrate to be affected by them...

[777darkdan]

looks like mine i just got the Cobra Centaur 165 Gen 2+ Night Vision Scope last week

[ryanperry90]

@Phygar1 sweet set up i have one for my 300 whisper i put the aa box on mine for long battery life and a larue scope mount and all the reticles to i have to see what will work for the whisper but i think 30cal will work

[nightgroover]

nice one.....thanks!

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