The Sun Through my Telescope

[aychingao]

where do they sell or how can I get new eyes for my head?

[Psilionimus]

i got beter idea for this ..i tested it in my home..take telescop to dark room shut blinds but..make some smal lhole for telecop..in that hole put ur telescop and look on sun..but now.. this wiev what u got on paper put on ur room roof..sun light is so extreamly storng so u not losing quality of light and any disturbrance will not make problems..in this way i will have sun 500 times biger and with same or better quality than on ur paper

[BeybladinKayleen]

And that is how you start a fire.

[MrJake90817]

this is my 6 inch penis :)

[BenHammondzz]

ALI G :D

[TheAubreymaec]

When you put your hands in the telescope that will seeing the planets and sun.Will Your Hands Burn?

Sorry For Wrong English Because Im Not An American

[Psilionimus]

@TheAubreymaec  with planets ur save.. buit never look wit ur own eyes on sun ..wheen u using telescope

[NArkWTikA]

what u see is not the sun but the light it creates sun is very far away from earth u struggle to see venus. dont confuse that because the sun is big all the telescopes will show it like it is in real

[magicloved]

1:03 imagine this with your eyes...

[SoccerRocks1214]

question, what if you want to look at something at the daylight like accross the road with a small telescope or the sky, but not the sun can you get eye damage

[noobkillerpwnz]

Any magnification + the sunlight = a blow torch, you wouldn't want to blow away your eyes.

[foxmolder1985]

Isn't it dangerous fot the optics  of the telescope to point it to the Sun? I have made some video today, but using astrosolar.

[BlittleMcNilsen]

Use a sun filter to protect your eyes from being damaged.

[tekkenforever82]

@ParaglidingManiac what is name of the song????

[MackenzieMichael]

Perhaps, but then if it is not harmful to your eyes, then being able to view the sun kinda makes it worth it. After all, you can always buy a new eyepiece.

[SaturnAndItsRings]

@MackenzieMichael yeah...sure if you want to throw $60 out the window for no reason

[MackenzieMichael]

@SaturnAndItsRings I have spent about that much on games that I did not like after playing them. Suffice it to say, I got nothing out of the games. Being able to look at the actual sun close-up like that would be worth every penny. Especially since I have done it before with no damage. This tells me that it can few done at least a few times before having to replace the lens. I guess it just depends on what you would define as "worth it". For me, no price is really too great if I get what I want.

[MackenzieMichael]

Maybe I'm the one who is missing something? Why can you not just create a filtered lens cover for your telescope? I have done this once. I took two lenses out of a pair of kids sunglasses and created a solar filter cap. It was good for seeing prominence coming off the sun. My telescope was ok. I can see just fine. What am I missing here? What is the big deal? This method is also good for viewing solar eclipses.

[SaturnAndItsRings]

@MackenzieMichael its not good for your eyepeice over time i've melted one of my eyepeices before like this

[SaturnAndItsRings]

do you know how bad that is 4 ur telescope-get a solar filter!

[UphyXx]

Nice video whats the song please?

[fddf44]

what's the song.

[LibertyWaxlips]

''this is my 6 inch telescope''

[imanoob4]

LOL fry your eyepiece

[jrgniuwer]

i could think of some better things to do with a my telescope than this! lol

[BeenThereDoneThatBro]

Awesome

[kirza94]

thats clever i never thought u'd be able to see the sun by reflecting off paper , im gunna try that now :D i ll try not to catch fire

[yourm0mlikesme]

I looked into the telescope while having it perfectly aligned into the center of the sun and now I can't see anything WTF? is this normal?

[jrgniuwer]

@yourm0mlikesme really? how did you type your comment out then???????????????????? looool

[marcuelcajon]

@yourm0mlikesme Its normal, continue staring into the eye piece.

[imanoob4]

why not just buy a Coronado PST?

[MacBooker4444]

@imanoob4 because they are $600.

[rbmaserang]

@rbmaserang *Brittish* boo

[ParaglidingManiac]

I guess that's the Seben telescope, is it?

[KhalsaSoulja]

@ParaglidingManiac lol, spot on!

I don't recommend it & neither do i own it anymore.

I'm not the proud owner of a 10" Dobsonian :D

[MrMooseheadz]

Thats one way to stuff a telescope, use a solar filter!

[ookiss00]

my dad has that telescope

[halflifeproductionz]

holy shit, imagine looking through it! wow

[xXRACERXx88]

I know a billion of people have mentioned this but it can damage ur eye piece if u do it too long. I did it for a short amount of time and it was cool. Just don't do it too long.

[199591Eddy]

poor telescope........

[NEEDCARS]

bad idea it can damage ure telescope

dont you know that?

[nickharvey7]

Neat video and telescope!!

It looked like lightening between the eyepiece and the paper

[MCBarracudo]

you can damage your telescope that way. Use ND5 baader filer

[MacBooker4444]

even doing what you did to view the sun is not safe. your eyepiece will melt fast. do not try this method either. just by a solar filter. its the best and safest way. dont ruin your eyepieces and especially do not blind yourself.

[archannjus88]

oOOOOO

que doido

[TheSproutKing]

welding goggles? just take the lense off & strap to the eye piece.

[engeladam409]

Thats bad for the eye piece.

[sarahsum1]

Really interesting! Can see why you can't look through the eyepiece! Thanks for sharing with us :-)

[chinita0813]

Yes I learned the hard way I did look at the sun for like 2 secs it was nasty and it make me a little blind good thing it was from a cheap department store made out of cheap plastic if it was glass I would problaly be blind ny now lol. I bought a new telescope though for beginners. A quality one this time lol a reflector 900mm and 5.1 inches for the aparture. Im starting into astronomy. Besides that. I looked at the sun with the cheap one again in the afternoon it was cool i saw sunspots.

[sarahsum1]

cool! i have just bought a telescope and am having trouble seeing anything! i'll get there in the end, good luck with your star gazing :-)

[Obama4Prezz]

Not a good idea dude

[123nebula123]

dont do this for a long time it can damage your eyepieces

[1234qwerty09]

cool

[SuicidalJediPSN]

Doing this can seriously damage your eyepieces, he should have mentioned that in the video.

[KhalsaSoulja]

Yea you're right it does.

At the time though i didn't know... :/

[SuicidalJediPSN]

Ouch, bet that was a nasty suprise!

[KhalsaSoulja]

You'd have thought so, but i couldn't really tell any difference when looking at the heavens.

And the worst part out of all of it was that i read how to do this from a Patrick Moore book.

Can you believe???

[iamthesoul]

This is what we did as children with a magnifying glass. My grandson loves to do it with a plant pot and a piece of paper. Great isn't it to teach about nature

[DNBliQUidFUNK]

nice music i listen to liquidfunk aswell

[ganymedeIV4]

take your lens out next time and give it a rest every few minutes to keep from permanant damage to the inside of your nice i bet expensive Orion telescope.

[NuclearMind]

What a newbie lol... Kids, dont do that at home.

[dannypantsgm]

I bet you had to buy some new eyepieces after that.

[nypddblue]

Thats not good for your telescope