I checked it out this afternoon, with the #14 welder's glass I picked up for
the Christmas eclipse. Neat! To my bleery eyes (too much programming this
afternoon), it looked like a vertically-oblong spot. For anyone with some
power, is that what it looked like on closer inspection?
{Geez, I should have picked up a solar filter with my new scope.}
My wife suggested I haul the finderscope off the scope and look at the sun
through it and the welder's glass (glass in front). I didn't try it,
because I wasn't sure that's a safe thing to do. Anybody know?
BTW, I'm pretty sure that was the first sunspot I've personally observed
since 1972, when I was using my department-store 60mm scope and eyepiece sun
filter (yes, I dodged that bullet, countless times). That's about all that
scope was good for - sunspots and exploring the moon.
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-----Original Message-----
From: r.prevost@... <r.prevost@...>
To: OAFs@... <OAFs@...>
Date: March 28, 2001 16:39
Subject: [OAFs] Larger Solar Spot...
Richard Taylor send an eMail to RASC members stating that the large
sunspot he observed recently (I observed it as well and posted here),
is now near the middle of the sun and is large enough to be seen
using just your eyes (through an appropriate solar filter of course).
Now's the time, if you have solar filter! Solar max is active again
but it won't last forever! ;-)
Photons Rule!
Rol
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