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Average Rating: Rating: - Great Generation I Scope, Great Value The Night Owl Optics ... Explorer (NOCX3) is their most popular monocular, and with good reason. The Explorer fits comfortably in your hand, and the controls are placed for one-handed operation. The rubber-armored body is water resistant. The monocular is light enough (16 oz) to take hiking or hunting without regret. With the Explorer I've observed coyotes, bats, and owl, and my dog chasing rabbits. The Explorer can only be used in low light situations. It has a built in infrared illuminator for very low light observations. It is not a thermal imager-it cannot detect heat. ... Generation I night vision scopes use a photo cathode that amplifies light towards a phosphorescent screen where the image is formed. Generation II and Generation III devices have micro channel screens, which give better resolution. Gen II and Gen II devices also have better light amplification. They also cost thousands of dollars. A Gen I image look blurry compared to a Gen II image. However all those cool night vision images CNN showed during Desert Storm-those were Gen I images. Gen I scopes are still the best value. Amazons price on the Explorer isgreat. ... The Explorer has 3.1x magnification, which can be increased to 5x with the purchase of the NOLD20 Lens Doubler (Amazon sells it). The NOCA42 Camera Adaptor (Amazon sells it) and the appropriate T-Mount for your 35mm camera will allow you to take pictures through the Explorer. The monocular comes with a high quality padded case, and a slip of paper informing you where to write for a free "orientational" (sic) video. The Explorer requires, but does not come with a 3 v lithium battery (CR123A 3v, EL123AP, DC123A). I recommend the Energizer EL123APB-2 3-Volt Lithium Photo Battery (2-Pack), which is available form Amazon electronics. More Technical Specifications: Objective Lens: 42mm, FOV @1000 yards: 628 feet, Focusing Range- 5 feet - infinity, Dimensions: 7.2"x2.3"x3.3". Interpretation of Technical Specifications: 1000 yards away you can see something 628 feet long. Anything further away than 5 feet you can focus on, anything closer than 5 feet you cannot get in focus. Rating: - Night Owl Explorer 3.1 I found the Night Owl Explorer 3.1 to be ok, thats all. The price isn't bad for what you get and it's very hard to pick out a "good" night vision unit in this price range. The one thing I don't like about it is it needs the IR light on it to work if it's completly dark out, which is ok, but the IR light is so bright that someone could spot you sitting in the dark because of it. It has a 1/2" diameter red light on top of the unit which at night is very bright if there is nothing else out there. This would not be a good unit for surveillance work. The unit only has a 15,000 light gain in it, some have up to 35,000 and would most likely be a better choice, if the claim is true. All in all it's ok for just screwing around with though. I also got the 5X lens adapt. for it, it works pretty good but does rob even more light. If you want a real good unit get one with a 2nd or even 3rd gen. tube, they are much better than any of these 1st gen. cheapies..... Rating: - Think twice If you really are going to invest in a night vision scope, you may as well go with a more expensive model. For what it's worth, the Explorer is sufficient, but the infared light to see in darkness is quite annoying. The manual focus can be a hassle as well. This device is excellent- almost four stars- but if you are going to spend the money, you may as well do it right.

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