How to Buy a Telescope : Telescope Buying Guide: Filters for Viewing the Sun
In spite of all of those childhood warnings, telescopes can be used to look at the sun with the proper filters. Find out how to buy telescope accessories in this free video on home astronomy from a telescope salesperson. Expert: Jesse Sturgeon Bio: Jesse Sturgeon has served as a sales and customer service representative for Anacortes Telescope in Anacortes, Wash. for several years. He enjoys introducing people to the science & art of astronomy. Filmmaker: Curtis Enlow
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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!
how powerful does your telescope have to be to view an image of the sun like that, but instead of the sun, Centuri A?
i wonder if your eyeball would light on fire if your filter fell off your scope.
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
The optics inside the scope would melt after a few fractions of a second. Your eye would be in serious trouble too.
so it melts glass?… but my eyeball is a lot weaker than glass!
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.
dont try it, newton actualy went blind in one eye from looking at the sun.
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.
nice