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Old 15-03-2008, 07:47 PM
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If you get only white-light solar filter, the cheap stuff, all you will see are sunspots - when they are there. The sun is still pretty quiet at the moment so not much to see. I would hope sunspot activity will pick up near the end of this year (fingers crossed). If you want to see prominences you need a h-alpha filter and they are the big bucks ones (which is why the PST scope is such a neat little product.)
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