Hello,

I ran across this too. Go to http://www.r-clarke.org.uk/ , check out
Solar Eclipse Pages - May Annular.

From the warning they appear to be referring to the eyepiece mount
(heat generated), but it certainly isn't clear. "Never look at the
sun though a telescope or binoculars," [sic] is pretty adamant.

Perhaps we should tell them that full-aperture filters are safe.

Rich


On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:16:26 GMT, "MrB"
wrote:

On a website linked from this group, there was a warning not to view the sun
using a telescope, even with a sun filter. I have a Baader filter I have
been using to do just that. Please, other opinions on this?