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Interesting thread. Had a read of some of the various links on the subject. So basically you have an electronic device that converts the image into a brighter but monochrome artificial image, which can then be viewed eyepiece style. People then plug this into their scopes (or hold it up to the sky for 1x, simplistically speaking) and call this "observing". They even "upgrade" by buying "better" devices of the same style. What gives?? The only thing that will become obsolete (for astro anyway) is NV as discussed here. When? Just as soon as a regular AP/EAA train, whose IQ is colossally superior, becomes small enough to fit into a visual back. Some of the tech is already happening in the form of digital viewfinders on mirrorless cameras and VR goggles. The question is valid though what exactly the point is of viewing a synthetic image through a peephole in the first place. To me that's just combining the negatives of EAA with those of visual.
Last edited by N1; 14-07-2019 at 10:54 AM.
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