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Originally Posted by Liz
During the day we checked out a couple of sunspots, and I tried the solar filter on my scope too. Alas, when I took the filter off, I didnt move the scope, and cooked my EP!!!!  Moved it pretty quick when saw the smoke billowing out from the EP, and burnt my thumb in the process. A lesson well learned for our guys, though I would have preferred not being the one dishing out the lesson. My Vixen 40mm looks a right old mess.  |
oooh sorry, but someone always manages to do this! Or something similar. I've heard quite a few stories of people's scopes smoking. But on a serious note, I hope you took the lesson seriously and now know to be very safety conscious whenever you do solar observing. You can't blink fast enough to save your eye.