Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
Moonbows, though nearly as common as rainbows, are rarely captured in real time video (frame rates of 24fps and higher). So while moonbows themselves are far from being rare, capturing them in real time is. The rarity of such captures is primarily due to limitation in camera technology, particularly that found in products priced at the consumer level.
What is a moonbow? - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 4 - BBC One youtube.com/watch?v=8sOBL8VWyBc
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Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous with 86% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated
Aurora Video Settings:
Scene - Night
Night Glow - Night Color
Frame Rate - 30fps
Resolution - 720p
HDR - off
Exposure Comp - 0.0
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*** Optics.org: SiOnyx sensor successfully captured images when the system was operated by the US Army, in a test scene at the Army’s premier agency for night vision technology, a company official said.
"This validated the system’s ability to image at 60 frames per second at 1 millilux," replicating moonless night, said Martin Pralle, VP of government programs at SiOnyx.
"That’s the point at which this becomes useful in a lot of military scenarios," he added. "We did it in their labs, on their equipment. They controlled the amount of light. We now have independently validated the camera in the Army’s premier test site." The SiOnyx sensor is said to offer a ten-fold increase in sensitivity at 1064 nm, the wavelength of choice for many laser targeting applications.
In addition to the military products, SiOnyx plans to announce a number of consumer applications requiring the enhanced IR of black silicon, which could see the technology used in computational imaging or biometrics. The SiOnyx imagers are fabricated by tsmc.com/english/default.htm. ***
#nightonearth #digitalnv #sionyxnightvision
Night on Earth
Digital Night Vision
Low Light Camera
Digital NV
black silicon
rainbow at night
Moonbows, though nearly as common as rainbows, are rarely captured in real time video (frame rates of 24fps and higher). So while moonbows themselves are far from being rare, capturing them in real time is. The rarity of such captures is primarily due to limitation in camera technology, particularly that found in products priced at the consumer level.
What is a moonbow? - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 4 - BBC One youtube.com/watch?v=8sOBL8VWyBc
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Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous with 86% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated
Aurora Video Settings:
Scene - Night
Night Glow - Night Color
Frame Rate - 30fps
Resolution - 720p
HDR - off
Exposure Comp - 0.0
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*** Optics.org: SiOnyx sensor successfully captured images when the system was operated by the US Army, in a test scene at the Army’s premier agency for night vision technology, a company official said.
"This validated the system’s ability to image at 60 frames per second at 1 millilux," replicating moonless night, said Martin Pralle, VP of government programs at SiOnyx.
"That’s the point at which this becomes useful in a lot of military scenarios," he added. "We did it in their labs, on their equipment. They controlled the amount of light. We now have independently validated the camera in the Army’s premier test site." The SiOnyx sensor is said to offer a ten-fold increase in sensitivity at 1064 nm, the wavelength of choice for many laser targeting applications.
In addition to the military products, SiOnyx plans to announce a number of consumer applications requiring the enhanced IR of black silicon, which could see the technology used in computational imaging or biometrics. The SiOnyx imagers are fabricated by tsmc.com/english/default.htm. ***
#nightonearth #digitalnv #sionyxnightvision
Night on Earth
Digital Night Vision
Low Light Camera
Digital NV
black silicon
rainbow at night
