Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-30049823-20200107032856/@comment-27306930-20200127042755

Nope, definitely not a Senior Moment. There's undeniably something going on with weak/frumpy batteries. I had a similar, if not exact, experience with my scope.

Look, I don't pretend to understand everything that's going on inside the Day/Night Scope, but I know it's not optical. The "magnification" is just a cheap trick. It's definitely possible the firmware may behave differently when the battery performance is marginal. It's also possible the hardware might act differently when there's insufficient voltage or amperage.

So you don't get a pass just because you're a  senior  experienced Nerfer of a certain age 😉 This is definitely a hardware issue.