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Originally Posted by Jowel
Thanks for the advice so far dudes. Keep it comming!
Just another quick question, which may be a silly question. But, when you look through a newtonian telescope, is everything upside down? Basically, if I looked up at the sky and tracked a planet with my naked eye in a certain direction, would it be viewed going in the exact opposite direction in the newtonian? Weird! How do people put up with that trippy stuff? Is it easy to get used to? Is there any way to reverse it to see "correctly"?
Oh, and another question. Are these scopes good to view the sun? Obviously I'd need some sort of eyepiece filter. But perhaps it will still be too bright to use on the sun even with a filter?
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Yes mate everything is upside down. But you do get used to it..
I'm not too sure about sun filters for a large reflector except to say that solar eye peice filters are extremely dangerous and should NEVER be used, EVER! They can crack from the immense heat and then guess what happens to your eye...
Always use a full objective filter when veiwing the sun.. In a collapsable dob like ours i would imagin that a filter in place of the inner dust cover would be the safest option rather than a filter on the top as stray direct sunlight light could still enter the scope via the gap.
Cheers
Lee