Scope or bino solar filter

Lost my scopes and solar filters in Hurricane Katrina. Purchased a new
Orion XT-12 -- now I need a solar filter for the scope but all I find on the
Orion website as a solar filter for the XT-12 is an "off-axis 4" filter.
What's that?

Lost in Katrina were an XT-8 and ETX-90 and the full aperture solar filters
for each. Is there a full-aperture solar filter for the XT-12?

How about for 10X42 and 10X50 binos?

Thanks.

it's a soil cover with only a 4inch opening that has the filter mounted on
it. For big scopes that allows lots of viewing and keeps the heat down. I
made one out of cardboard and a mylar blanket once. Now I just use a cheap
EP and project the image onto white card stock.
Using Babylon 10.


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"Joe S." wrote in message
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Lost my scopes and solar filters in Hurricane Katrina. Purchased a new
Orion XT-12 -- now I need a solar filter for the scope but all I find on
the Orion website as a solar filter for the XT-12 is an "off-axis 4"
filter. What's that?

Lost in Katrina were an XT-8 and ETX-90 and the full aperture solar
filters for each. Is there a full-aperture solar filter for the XT-12?

How about for 10X42 and 10X50 binos?

Thanks.

"Joe S." wrote in :

Lost my scopes and solar filters in Hurricane Katrina. Purchased a new
Orion XT-12 -- now I need a solar filter for the scope but all I find on
the Orion website as a solar filter for the XT-12 is an "off-axis 4"
filter. What's that?

Lost in Katrina were an XT-8 and ETX-90 and the full aperture solar
filters for each. Is there a full-aperture solar filter for the XT-12?

How about for 10X42 and 10X50 binos?

Thanks.





make your own...

http://www.astro-physics.com/index.h...acc/astrosolar

http://www.astro-physics.com/product...c/make_sol.pdf

"VicXnews" wrote in message
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"Joe S." wrote in :

Lost my scopes and solar filters in Hurricane Katrina. Purchased a new
Orion XT-12 -- now I need a solar filter for the scope but all I find on
the Orion website as a solar filter for the XT-12 is an "off-axis 4"
filter. What's that?

Lost in Katrina were an XT-8 and ETX-90 and the full aperture solar
filters for each. Is there a full-aperture solar filter for the XT-12?

How about for 10X42 and 10X50 binos?

Thanks.





make your own...

http://www.astro-physics.com/index.h...acc/astrosolar

http://www.astro-physics.com/product...c/make_sol.pdf

Thanks -- I'll do it.

Joe S. wrote:
Lost my scopes and solar filters in Hurricane Katrina. Purchased a new
Orion XT-12 -- now I need a solar filter for the scope but all I find on the
Orion website as a solar filter for the XT-12 is an "off-axis 4" filter.
What's that?

Lost in Katrina were an XT-8 and ETX-90 and the full aperture solar filters
for each. Is there a full-aperture solar filter for the XT-12?

How about for 10X42 and 10X50 binos?

Thanks.



Got mine from thousand Oaks,
http://www.thousandoaksoptical.com/solar.html
the type 2 plus,
203mm\8.00" 233mm\9.187" Celestron & Meade 8 S/C

but that was the biggest I saw on their site, unless
I looked in the wrong place.
I do like how it works, same brightness(subjectively)
as the moon at night.