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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kabsetz" data-source="post: 3165715" data-attributes="member: 10167">Sendai,An emphatic endorsement to Alexis' suggestion of learning to view with both eyes open. I have been doing this for over ten years now, but still remember how long it took to get back to relaxed binocular viewing after a long one-eyed viewing through the scope. The stay-on case ocular flap is a good solution if you use a case like that, and it should be easy enough to figure out a way to strap it to the side so that it blocks the view of your idle eye. Covering it with uniformly grayish fabric will help if it is made of green woven nylon.What I use presently is a simple and crude shade made out of 1.5mm copper electrical wire with plastic insulation. From this, I have bent a shape about like my cupped palm, with a loop turning about 90 degrees to rest against the eyepiece/prism assembly. The cup part it covered with black flock with adhesive backing, one piece on either side that glue onto one another over and around the wire. This thing stays in place with a simple rubber ring that presses it against the scope. Quick, cheap and easy, weighs almost nothing. It is the next most important self-made tune-up on my scope after the cable tie sight.Kimmo</blockquote>