Orion 5942 AstroGoggles

This is sold to prepare you for a night of observing by helping your eye night adaption. I find it more useful for those times when I want to heat a cup of coffee in the microwave oven. The oven light is very bright. If I want to heat a snack, the same applies. There are other times during a session that you want more light and the goggles make it possible.

Astronomical observations.

There are arguments pro and con as to the usefulness of red goggles for helping your night vision. For me they seem to work. It is nice to be able to put them on and watch TV or whatever and then go out in the dark and use my telescopes without have to wait a long time for you night vision to start working. You can buy the exact same goggles and clear and green and yellow. These are just molded in red vinyl to so you can use them to protect you night vision. That is really the only purpose. They do that job well. They have light proof vents rather than the perforations that goggles like this usually have. That is to keep out the light and still keep the goggles from steaming up. That works pretty well unless you are very active in which case you will get some fogging up. If you need red goggles for Astronomy, these do the trick. Recommended.

They work really well. No glare, and no blue/green light makes it past the lenses as far as my spectroscope can tell.But god damn, the price... outrageous. 3 stars for exploiting the fact so few companies produce goggles like this. This is a little too much profit, for an item that probably cost 20~50 cents to make.Edit:Well, I thought this wasn't passing green light but I only saw orange and red in the scope. I learned my lesson I suppose.The picture is a cropped screenshot of a color blindness test, these glasses were worn by myself for the test. I saw the test images for the first time while wearing these too, the results are in the picture I added.Kinda sad...

Normally, I don't take the time to write reviews. But these goggles are the most under-respected piece of equipment I own. If you are serious about your night vision, you need these goggles. I primarily use them in precisely the situation you might least expect: out in the middle of the open desert with nary a white light to be found. Goofball next to you at a star party flips his dome light on to pack up when *he's* done observing? No problem. Car drives by and you want to see if it's gone without losing your dark adaption if it isn't? No problem. Wanna get a jump on your night vision so you are 100% adapted right when astronomical twilight ends? No problem. Wanna check the weather or take a call on your smart phone but you don't have a good enough red filter for it? No problem. Are you at a pretty good dark sky campground, but there are a few people walking around here and there with white flashlights periodically? No problem. Wanna look a lot cooler than you usually do? OK, that's not going to happen with these. They are a "Dork Factor 11" product. But that's why they are so undervalued.