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About Night Vision Binoculars

Night vision binoculars

Just like daytime binoculars, night vision binoculars provide the easiest viewing experience regardless of your experience with night vision. A night vision binocular or night vision goggles is a pair of image intensifier scope with the necessary optics and power supply arranged for binocular viewing to provide a better sense of depth. Each of the two viewing scopes is identical to a monocular night vision scope, but the power supply is shared. Helmet mounted military night vision goggles make flying helicopters or driving vehicles at night safer.

Some night vision systems are sensitive to all radiation from visible light at 350 nm.

Night vision scopes

A night vision scope is a passive monocular night vision telescope based on an image-intensifier tube. A commercial version includes an image-intensifier tube. It is in a housing with objective lens for enlarging the image and ocular lenses for focusing the image. The lower compartment is occupied by a high voltage power supply, typically a voltage multiplier circuits and batteries. The complete optical instrument weight less than 500 g and are easy to hold in one hand.
The night vision scope functions at night in low natural light from such sources as the moon, stars and clouds reflection. Available light can be magnified up to 25,000 times. The are versions than can be mounted on sniper rifles, machine guns and other light weapons. The passive night vision scope is also called a night scope, night vision telescope and starlight scope.