I second Siegfried's suggestion! Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Solar viewing a SPOC yesterday
The filter has a retail value around $1,000 - $1,200. It is being offered to us by John at $400. I recommend buying it and having it available to SLAS members. Perhaps a dedicated solar eyepiece should also be purchased, something like a 40mm Pentax with lots of eye- relief and a 70 deg wide AFOV. That combination would give about 85x and a .82 deg FOV. The entire disk of the Sun would easily fit into the FOV.
I think it would be great to have this in place by Stansbury Days.
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