backyard telescope - PST views the sun

[nelis555]

what is the price range of a decent PST?

[tnoamen]

ATTENTION!

PST stands for personal solar telescope. It is built for viewing the sun.

Don't look at the sun! Either directly or through anything else unless you are ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that your gear is sufficient.

[krussel1000]

Thank's for this. I like they way you show what's going on directly through the eyepiece. ;-)

[massimilianopolidori]

Hi, what's the focal length of the eyepiece? Thanks

[nytecam]

@massimilianopolidori eyepiece = 12mm orthoscopic

[U124IXB]

As usual your videos always inform thank you for sharing.

[nytecam]

There aren't any bino solar H-alpha scopes - just scopes like the basic PST as shown.

[MaskofMystery]

im thinking of getting solar binoculars. would you recommend them? i cant afford a scope right now.

[nytecam]

@ParaglidingManiac Your idea wont work - my PST scope with H-alpha filter are specially designed for sole purpose of safe viewing of the sun in hydrogen light. Don't play games with the sun!

[8Zeitgeist]

HAHAH

YOU COULD PLAY THE REAL-LIFE SALAD FINGERS!

SPOONS!

[luckydog768]

if you look at the sun most of the time it will make you go blind because of its brightness and hottness

[xXSparky117Xx]

@luckydog768

This is why you get a solar filter.

[Glennfalconi]

Aha. Then it must be stronger than 100 sunglasses. Actually it is supposed to be yellow and the backround blue. The sun looks sooo diffrent especially because you only see that it's round. It's not like it's sparky looking. just round.

[jr9950]

@Glennfalconi

Don't you understand anything? When a filter is imposed, colors change.

[Glennfalconi]

@jr9950 I realized already, He explained it.

[Glennfalconi]

You can't look at it closely can you? And how come it's suddenly black and the sun is red? That's so wierd!

[nytecam]

@Glennfalconi Yes you can with a special solar telescope like the Coronado PST which contains a hydrogen-alpha etalon filter passing <1,000,000th the sun's radiation. The cam just hand held to scope eyepiece and so a bit shaky;-)

[Glennfalconi]

@nytecam Allright. But why is it black? You're still viewing from the ground are'n't you?

[nytecam]

@Glennfalconi Oh you mean the black 'background' - that's just a contrast effect. When it's safe to view the sun [through any safe filter] the sky is black by comparison.

[nytecam]

@Glennfalconi Correct IF you don't use a special narrow-band 0.7A hydrogen filter on your scope like me that only allows a millionth of the sunlight through and is thus perfectly safe;-) There are rules for the unwary!