In agreement with all the above recent comments from those who bought one.
Here are pics through Samsung S7 with 20mm eyepiece. No Sunspots but image is pleasant to look at.
The phone holder is for me non trustworthy (phone kept popping off) to hold my S7 phone, so phone was held at the eyepiece.
In all if used properly a cheap grab n go scope to look at our own star and that's its big and only plus.
I think a quality filter could be bought for around the $100 mark from Bintel or Sirius Optics or Astro Petes, so if you have a 50-70mm refractor this would be a better choice.
I still see safety issues with this simply because it is labelled as a Solar Telescope and when the warning stickers have peeled off, the manual is lost, the filter missing/damaged and it has a 2nd or 3rd owner in years to come I could see some concerns arising. That in itself may raise concerns over liability, where/when bought etc.
As noted by others is the lack of a separate cap on the scope, so the filter will likely stay on the scope and that's where potential damage will result. Any reasonable person with a bit of knowledge should have foreseen such a probability and it is beyond belief that it has safety approvals just on this alone, as well as having no "safe" storage box for the filter.
Will I use it from here on? yes probably look at the Sun most clear days and show the grandkids as well.
But I wont onsell it ever, will destroy and bin it if any damage occurs to scope/filter.
Last edited by PeterM; 14-12-2016 at 11:49 AM.
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