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Old August 24th 04, 11:00 AM
Martin Frey
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Paul Lawler wrote:

... I was assuming that the fact that the sun
is difficult for non-observers to "position" in the eyepiece without it
blacking out was a result of the small aperture.


That's not really a "fact" - personally I find it quite easy to point
any telescope at the Sun. I just wish finding stuff in the night sky
was even 1/10th as easy!

The shadow of a telescope on the ground usually gets the Sun in the
eyepiece without reference to any kind of finder - but the sol finder
on the PST is nice too.

As the PST filter is well inside the PST tube, what actually happens
to the heat that has passed through the objective?

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