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If you saw in infrared, would using optical devices like binoculars be impossible?

Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 13:44:13 2021 No.13273254 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 13:44:53 No.13273258 Report

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Yes.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 14:15:01 No.13273330 Report

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No. How do you think IR images exist?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 14:34:05 No.13273377 Report

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Maybe. How could we know for sure?

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 14:46:01 No.13273399 Report

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>>13273254
Normal optics? Yeah.
If you made a lense out of a crystal of potassium bromide or something they use in IR equipment it would be transparent.
It would also be bigger and have some strange appearance because of the wavelength and chromatic aberration. You can also make simple IR mirrors using cold polished gold so theoretically that could work too in a Newtonian telescope.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 15:01:24 No.13273432 Report

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>>13273254
if I can still see normal light then the binoculars will work just fine, I just wont be able to see heat, there might be some glare or fog but im sure if a brain could adapt thermal vision it can also adapt muting it/turning it off.

but yeah if you only have thermal vision then you aint gonna see shit unless its through special materials designed for thermal IR

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 16:05:03 No.13273597 Report

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>>13273254
>infrared
>infrared LIGHT

they are the same thing as normal optics

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 16:06:54 No.13273601 Report

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>>13273377
The quantum binoculars. 50% to see something. Either you see it or you don't.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Jun 2021 22:42:01 No.13274876 Report

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It also depends on which part of the IR spectrum. Glass is transparent enough in the near IR that even zoom lenses with a lot it between the subject and the sensor are usual in security cameras & such.

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