How to Buy a Telescope : Telescope Buying Guide: Filters for Viewing the Sun

[ParaglidingManiac]

I can't get an answer to my question regarding filters for viewing the Sun. I am using a Baader solar filter "foil" kidn of a filter, in combination with my 4.5" reflector. Why is my filter only 60mm wide? Why don't people cover the entry whole - completely? Why only a little window? I though that more lgiht, means more info. Thus detail.

[OwozzieO]

Why not just look at night when it's less bright?

[bestamerica]

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where is the telescope with 2 cable handles guide

[TheVee909]

nice

[darktowerZ]

Thanks for the excellent videos that you made. Very informative and useful and perhaps some of the best-most professional- that I've seen on YouTube

[ishouldplayzelda]

i wonder if your eyeball would light on fire if your filter fell off your scope.

[GaseousAnomaly001]

The optics inside the scope would melt after a few fractions of a second. Your eye would be in serious trouble too.

[ishouldplayzelda]

so it melts glass?... but my eyeball is a lot weaker than glass!

[GaseousAnomaly001]

As soon as you point a telescope of that size at the sun, it melts the glass. The light would never get a chance to reach your eye. On smaller scopes, say under 4 inches, it would be able to physically burn your eye, causing permanent damage.

[skoko1945]

@GaseousAnomaly001

Sir! The idea is to have a filter on the telescope

before you point it at the sun.

I use a white light filter on a 12" scope. Its mead by

Thousand Oaks optical. what I see is an orange ball and

if present, sun spots There realy neat to look at.

[reboothater]

dont try it, newton actualy went blind in one eye from looking at the sun.

[dgk990]

how powerful does your telescope have to be to view an image of the sun like that, but instead of the sun, Centuri A?

[y08y]

It's important to mention that any removable filter needs to be taped for safety reasons, you really do NOT want it to come off while watching the sun because without a doubt you WILL lose sight forever in one eye!

[reboothater]

i would say tape is a bad idea, especialy if your somewhere it gets hot as the suns heat will cause the tape to loos adhesion. If your a sun fanatic i would consider making/buying a telescope for looking at the sun and mounting the filter permanently if its something you do all the time for long periods and your a sun fanatic.