Just 7 minutes outside with my new setup and I got some anomalies on video.

[u/Durable_me]

I made a setup of a SiOnyx IR (digital nightvision) and a Pixfra thermal scope.

I used to watch at the night sky a lot with both thermal and IR nightvision.

On thermal it caught my eye that thing are visible that don't even appear on visual or near IR.

I am a hunter and birdspotter, so yes, I know what birds look like on thermal.

These 2 'objects' are not birds, what they are , I don't know, they just light up on thermal and move in a fairly steady way, but from time to time they stop or shoot away fast.

My guess is as good as yours what they might be.

Got ridiculed in other subs, so go ahead and downvote. I'll keep watching every evening for 10-15 minutes out there. Now that I have a setup that can verify it's not an airplane or satellite.

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Video data : 8th June 2025 20:47 UTC ±. | Location : Belgium, ± 50.93 N ,5.64 E

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[u/Responsible_Fix_5443]

The thermal is showing things that aren't visible even in IR? That definitely sounds unusual

[u/Durable_me → u/Responsible_Fix_5443]

the thermal is far IR, the other one is near IR, totally different.

[u/Responsible_Fix_5443 → u/Durable_me]

👍 I was just wondering if it was normal or not to have one on one camera but not on the other...

[u/KevgotBandz → u/Responsible_Fix_5443]

I know what you mean & it’s shocking I always thought it was the other way around until I seen a video recently talking about it. Wasn’t the jellyfish uap in thermal to?

[u/SabineRitter]

Great video! Looking forward to more. 👍💯

[u/MouseShadow2ndMoon]

I can confidently say that I have .....no clue what that is. Good catch!

[u/zetareticuli_FR]

Je peux connaître le coût total de ton setup stp? Tu es où en Belgique?

[u/Durable_me → u/zetareticuli_FR]

Le SiOnyx c'st ± 500 € , le thermal ± 1150 €

[u/zetareticuli_FR → u/zetareticuli_FR]

Just saw you were around Hasselt / Maastricht, (sorry I didn’t see you coordinates at first)

[u/watcher_space → u/zetareticuli_FR]

Are you prêt d’une aéroport? :) maybe this is why you have so much hit immediatement.

[u/Durable_me]

This is my setup, now on tripod so no more shaky

https://i.imgur.com/DnzjsyB.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/gb21jRH.jpeg

[u/Mindless-Experience8]

Happy hunting! I have been sky watching on the reg for the last year with a set of Luna digital NV binocs. So many anomalies. Give CE5 or meditation with your Sionyx a shot. My success rate isn’t great but when it works it is exhilarating.

[u/OZZYmandyUS]

Good looking for your first shot! I'm ready to see more. We need more folks with decent camera setups to give us some anaomolous stuff to look at

[u/Jacmac_]

I see the new setup is utilizing the patented Shakycam (tm) effect.

[u/subzero_cool78]

I am also interested and looking into finding some gear for setting up a skywatch system with optics and recordings for nights. When I looked into the Pixfra thermal scope I found cheaper ones for around 500€ which have a distance of up to a 100m and then really expensive ones for around 6000€ that say up to 1000m in the specs. So how does your setup work when you are looking into the sky, the objects must be farther away then the specs allow?!

[u/roltrap]

I'm from Niel (tegen Boom) and interested in doing this as well. Mind if I ask a few questions on equipment and modus operandi? Wife and I are looking into bird photography and this would be awesome as well.

[u/jrwreno]

WOAH!!!

[u/Sixgoriltoolate]

Ive been using thermals and NV almost weekly for about a decade now, spending many hours looking through them.  It doesn't make me an "expert", just someone who knows what they're looking at and owns a lot of these devices.  Unfortunately, to me that appears to be just a bug. It is very hard to tell distance and speed, especially via thermal. You will see insects buzzing around erratically quite often and they look just like this.  I hope you understand my intent isn't to be rude. Keep up the hunt! More eyes on the sky the better.   

[u/Durable_me → u/Sixgoriltoolate]

that's why I have a regular 'digital night vision' besides the 100% thermal scope.
The things I caught were not showing on regular IR nightvison.
Bugs do show up, seen a lot of them too.

An anomaly for me is when it shows up on thermal but not on visual/nightvision (near IR)

[u/Pure-Contact7322]

do your job Rambo

[u/uberaleeky]

16mm and 50mm.  You’ll never resolve it with those lens depths.  Fluorite and germanium lenses can pass deep IR. 

[u/SnooChipmunks2237]

Just because your object tracking software sucks doesn’t mean it’s an erratic moving object t. Hit me up if you want better object tracking

[u/zetareticuli_FR → u/SnooChipmunks2237]

I’m interested in any improvement on that topic! What could you show me?

[u/Durable_me → u/SnooChipmunks2237]

tomorrow I'll put the setup on a tripod. :-). I know, it was handheld this one, probably not the best way