@aaronjessome1032 me thinks the sun is a vortex and fractern patterns reflect that in their spinny movements and the solar system moving through space with planets trailing behind like DNA show that as well me thinks. Me says we is energy which means me thinks we are also vortex of energy like chakras me says we are infinity 🙏💎♾️ tetrahedron time travel machine activate!🌠
Be careful using a post magnification filter. I cooked my focuser so now it thumps when i focus my telescope. I only use a pre-filter now to protect my telescope.
Yep, you need to use a energy rejection filter at the aperture of the telescope, then the HA filter at the focuser. I think he is using one because you can see a cap on the telescope when he swing it to the sun.
Let's just talk about the fact that your telescope is so fancy that it has its own robotic arm. That thing probably costs more than my entire net worth. ☠️
M 17 yr old self has benn saving up since i was 16 and got a job for one of those goto mounts for astrophotography idk how these like 14 yr old get the money to get those or their just spoiled
@@Kevin-yh5br No, I’m letting this person know that the creator of the video said “about 500 degrees Fahrenheit,” meaning rounding 451 to the nearest hundred would make it “about 500.”
@@amenson1997 Why do you have to argue like that. The Universe is Amazing. God is incredible. The two sentences do not conflict. When you marvel at an artwork, do you slap yourself and tell yourself "wait, i need to be admiring the artist, not the artwork". I don't think so
Excellent video!! I have an average $500 telescope. I decided to buy filters from Amazon because they were inexpensive. One of them was nearly black and was to be used to look at the sun. I put it in the eye piece as instructed. I waited until the sun was just at about the horizon at dusk so the sun wasn’t so intense. So I put the filter on and rather than just look into the scope, I decided to use the cell phone adapter instead. THANK GOD I did that. As I was putting my phone on the telescope I heard a loud “pop”. I then instantly seen smoke….like a little trail kind of like what comes out of an old toy train set. I quickly took the phone off the telescope but it was too late. The sun must have been so intense, it expanded the black glass on the filter and it basically exploded….then the focused light hit the camera lens on my eye phone and melted it making it start to smoke. Destroyed my phone. I took a picture with my wife’s phone of the filter and posted it on Amazon in the reviews. Had I looked with my eye instead of the phone, I’d be totally blind today. All I can say is never trust any filter or set up no matter what. Cheap Chinese shit. I bet someone has lost an eye along the way. It is so dangerous it’s not funny. I’ll look at other peoples sun photography…,I’ll never try that shit again. Can’t imagine what it would have done had it been high noon….I was using it at sunset!
That is an awesome setup, I'd love to be able to have something like that. The planets and stars don't look how they show us they do, far more beautiful than they show us.
Reminds me of the time lightning strick a sewer drain about 50 ft away from me Went blind for a second because I looked at the sewer drain right as the lightning struck The house shook I had been in the process of walking back in when it hit I also could t hear for a second And lastly I accidentally touched metal the was touching the ground My arms swung around with the force of an asteroid going the speed of light Now I live to use electricity to activate my muscles because it’s interesting I took a plasma glove apart and it turns out it can burn you So ye
Also, avoid cheap eyepiece filters, crappy ones can explode. Get a good filter. Also inspect the filter before using it; a scratch might impair it seriously.
That's wierd because it's really not that strong, single mode wavelength that is so low red almost infrared there for not high energy. Maybe a trunk line has like 50 of them in a bundle.
With the right lense setup you can actually see the sunspots on the sun projected onto a piece of paper and if held still enough, will imprint/burn the image onto the paper like a painting. The lenses dont usually last though.
Yes, according to my knowledge it's strongly dissuaded to attach a solar filter on the eyepiece. It should always be attached in front of the aperture.
@@patricj951 Daystar Quark is not a normal film/glass solar filter. It has series of filters which block the light and pass only the Ha (hydrogen alpha) wavelength.
Translated: "I feel like making a random video to prove to everyone I can have a girlfriend. I guess I'll make it about space or something to look legit ".
My professor was telling me they made a contraption that used the suns sunlight energy to melt through half a foot inch steel in a matter of minutes. They used thousands of mirrors that all aimed to do so. Absolutely wild
Platinum wasn't melted until someone focused sunlight on a nugget with a large lens, sometime in the 1700s. No fire could be made hot enough at the time.
@@ethorii That is pretty interesting. I do know Platinum has a pretty high melting point. Crazy that they didn’t have a furnace or forge hot enough for it. Even more surprised that they made enough mirrors to do so
@@Niko-zf5ml what i meant is that, nobody is trying to figure out how to store that generous amount of energy or convert that heat into electricity. All the news out there only talking about solar panel only capable of generating miniscule amount of energy. While in this video, we saw that combination of lens have the abundance of energy to burn that paper not in minute but in second. Clearly that was far from "miniscule" energy
I had a magnifying mirror on my kitchen table. It caught the sun's reflection and set my retro vinyl kitchen chair on fire. Never leave any kind of magnifying glass, eyeglasses, or curved makeup mirrors in the area of a sunny window. And don't litter. Glass bottles have started forest fires this same way.
I'd had a department store telescope as a kid that had come with a "solar filter", a dark glass that screwed into the end of the eyepiece. It had produced a decent image of sunspots right up until the point where the intense heat on the filter caused it to crack. That was over 55 years ago and I still clearly remember the look of that sudden brilliant crack of collected sunlight impinging upon my retina. Those cheap filters were outlawed (I think) but I still have one on my shelf as a reminder. To this day, I can hardly believe I wasn't blinded in the least by that occurrence.
@@Chwibon The danger's known now; we were the kids who'd let it be known. Those ocular filters were outlawed a few years after my experience. Thank goodness for Mylar!
I did when i was young. For a brief moment the whole sun was dark and the circle around the sun is the bright one. But at that moment i know it was dangerous. I think since then my eyes has been weak. And my myopia develops significantly over years. I actually have different vision between the two eyes. Sometimes i have wandering eyes where only one eye focuses on the object but the other eye wanders off. My vision was healthy but it's quite bad now. And yes i deserve an oscar for my stupidity.
@Gabriela Tifany uh oh, that doesn't good, but hey, what you are saying could be because of multiple reasons. Better to see an eye specialist to see if there is any damage.
@@romz1 yup. i think it damaged my eyes but probably not too much. but i think it does worsen my myopia quite a bit. but i would blame most of my myopia for me getting too used to seeing things closely. but yeah. thanks.
Just film sun at night. Its safer
I hope this is sarcasm
@@RicketyQuickity woosh
@@Mckillax it's woooosh
@@RicketyQuickitywhoosh
@@Mckillaxwhoosh
Let's appreciate the man's flex..
He not only has a girlfriend..
He has a girlfriend with a telescope.
Why is this so funny to imagine? Lol
His girlfriend is imaginary, but her telescope is real-ginary.
Why else would one date a girl?
having a girlfriend is a flex?
And he is taking risks with it 😂. Not using his own
Moral: The Sun is Aggressively shy.
💀💀 underrated comment
@@creativesparkes8482she’s so cute. I gotta eat her ass
Earth is too woke for sun
not funny
@@saul_goodman15oh thanks for your input, we were all waiting for it
A telescope and microscope are two fundamental necessities for a man who wants to learn about the world for himself.
You have posted this same comment on every damn telescope video I've watched!
@@youngjdet don't watch my comments 👍
@omawadhiya247 nobody cares about all your comments that you keep repeating
How about you go do something smarter you think this is quantum mechanics science
And physics
There is one funny joke on this subject. “You can look at the sun from a telescope twice: with your left eye and with your right eye”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Still cannot surpass unbeatable russian origin version of that joke
@@shitsentinel Sounds like the idea behind the saying 'Russian roulette'
And never again
This exact situation plays out in Beavis + Butthead Do The Universe 🤩
Let's just appreciate that he used a piece of paper instead of his girlfriend's eyes.
Appreciate? Wtf you mean would’ve been better if it was his gf eyes
@@XhristianGaminX it's a joke bozo
@@chronicmelancholic he was joking aswell you nutcase
His girlfriend's eyes were used in the first two attempts, he _had_ to use paper.
Why would I care whether he used her eyes or not?
Dang no wonder pirates wore eye patches
The sun is so insane. I couldn't wrap me head around the power of it as a kid
me thinks yee can
@ISHALLPREVAIL_ no I can but It's still awe inspiring and even more impressive
@aaronjessome1032 me thinks the sun is a vortex and fractern patterns reflect that in their spinny movements and the solar system moving through space with planets trailing behind like DNA show that as well me thinks. Me says we is energy which means me thinks we are also vortex of energy like chakras me says we are infinity 🙏💎♾️ tetrahedron time travel machine activate!🌠
Now remember there’s billions in our galaxy and then 2 trillion galaxies
The sun is like a clock always on time never takes a day off, beautifully created just like me and you
I like how, for the demonstration, you used you girlfriend's telescope instead of your own xD.
XD
Lol 😆
He replies mines too big... to carry outside
😂yes ruin hers
Lol
For safety purposes, he turned his girlfriend's telescope into a deadly laser
The sun is a deadly laser
The sun is a deadly laser
The sun is a deadly laser
The sun is a deadly laser
The sun is a deadly laser
New way to light up unlocked 🌞🔥💗
So glad that there are people like this that do videos to show us things that we normally wouldn't even know exists! Thank You!
Dear Sun, you don't need a filter. You're gorgeous as you are.
#celestialbodypositivity
#RightToSeeSun
#brilliant
This needs more likes
You are blinded by its beauty.
I had a telescope as a small stupid kid and for some reason the thought to look at the sun with it never crossed my mind. Thank God.
I never did it because I knew I'd never see anything lol
Looking at the moon on a clear night was warning enough for me NEVER to aim at the sun
@@AhHereWeGowhy? What's wrong with the moon?
@@hasoonnine It reflects sunlight, off of a white surface.... and does it well enough to hurt
Same lol
Be careful using a post magnification filter. I cooked my focuser so now it thumps when i focus my telescope. I only use a pre-filter now to protect my telescope.
wat
Thats exactly what i was concerned for when i was watching this video. I think he has some arrangement for it too
Yep, you need to use a energy rejection filter at the aperture of the telescope, then the HA filter at the focuser. I think he is using one because you can see a cap on the telescope when he swing it to the sun.
I didn't know there was any explanation needed for this... It's one of the first two things you learn as a human.
Never let me near a telescope during the day because my intrusive thoughts will win
Stay away from lasers too.
I have one and I now am almost legally blind, stay strong man
OCD will win to 😭
@@originalplanets3332 yeah I got ocd 😂
same lmao
That solar flare was sick
Dance baby dance. 🤣👌👍
HUGE!!!
Thanks for talking about it, i was looking at comments and nobody saying but yeah massive flare storming on sun.
I'm glad you mentioned it, my dude. Amazing stuff 👌 Everyone seems to be talking about his gf... 😂
I was looking too! Is that from his scope does anyone know?
Let's appreciate the man's flex...
His telescope has a girlfriend.
😂
Quit stealing comments, it's extremely obvious that's what it is.
@@CT-qx8nl
Are you being sarcastic? I genuinely can't tell
MF, stop stealing comments
Bro has to steal comments 😂
I look directly at the sun around sunset with polarized sunglasses all the time. I stare and its quite beautiful.
Does she get uncomfortable 😂
The ignition temperature of paper is 451°F. There's kind of a popular book about it.
1984..??
@@colinbutts3320 Indeed, that's when "Animal farm" was written
@@colinbutts3320 Fahrenheit 451
@@tristanssimpson132420,000 leagues under the Ocean?
About 233°C in non freedom units
That telescope probably cost more than my house
Your house was $1500, do you live in Detroit?
@@schwaggybammer968 woosh
In india we say "tera ghar jayega isme"
@@AS-le5hr 80000 ka telescope hai 80000 ka
@@axstr1clol u mad bro ? A simple camera cost more then 2 lakhs !!! This telescope prolly cost around 15 laks minimum
Lmao. Gotta use your girlfriend's telescope so that you dont potentially ruin your good one 😂😂😂
THAT SCOPE IS SO RAD !!
Let's just talk about the fact that your telescope is so fancy that it has its own robotic arm. That thing probably costs more than my entire net worth. ☠️
Yo bro, I was thinking the same shit I spilled my weed fuck
@@TAZ0300I'm dead asf fam 🤣
Paid for by youtube views.
M 17 yr old self has benn saving up since i was 16 and got a job for one of those goto mounts for astrophotography idk how these like 14 yr old get the money to get those or their just spoiled
@@epic_playz4283 I was wondering the same thing 🤔 either telescope parts are extremely cheap or this kid spent a lot of money on the telescope😂😂😂
One time, I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went... then it dawned on me
Bruh 😂🤣🤣🤣
tha hel
Why did this make me laugh so much 😂😂
Love that joke in Last of Us , No Pun Intended: Part Too
😂
you’re no Will Livingstone
A fantastic yet simple demonstration.
Nice one.
I just love the idea the he bought a solar filter and then searched around until he found a girlfriend that owned a fitting telescope.
😂😂😂😂
".. Pointing my girlfriend's telescope... "
Brooo 💀
High five
@@Eduardo_Espinoza Very nice
?
The sun seems well, I'm glad
nah man theres a tornado dancing in the sun💀💀💀💀
It's 451 degrees Fahrenheit, there's even a book named Fahrenheit 451 about burning paper.
451F = 212C
He said “about,” genius.
Ray Bradbury
@@corndog_clubbu scared of smart people huh?
@@Kevin-yh5br No, I’m letting this person know that the creator of the video said “about 500 degrees Fahrenheit,” meaning rounding 451 to the nearest hundred would make it “about 500.”
drumset09
Funny how it's in Celsius what water's boiling point is in Fahrenheit, huh?
We've all looked at the sun with the naked eye for several seconds 'AS KIDS' just to see the magical twinkling after lights.
With magnifying lens of this magnitude?
For me, the world would just go monochrome, usually purple
Looked at the sun as a very young child, started sun gazing in late 20s as an adult.
*fraction of a second.
The last shot of the sun is freakin epic bro. Definitely keep it up cuz those are shots major league and just shows how amazing the universe is.
*shows how amazing YHWH (God) is.
@@amenson1997 Yahweh is not a fact, the universe is.
@@SamSard how dare you disrespect your Father like that. He gave you EVERYTHING and you just denied His glory. Not smart whatsoever.
@@SamSardYHWH is another name for the universe.
@@amenson1997 Why do you have to argue like that.
The Universe is Amazing. God is incredible.
The two sentences do not conflict.
When you marvel at an artwork, do you slap yourself and tell yourself "wait, i need to be admiring the artist, not the artwork". I don't think so
The fact it can zoom PAST the atmosphere is just astonishing.
The sun is preparing the year 2025 so badly ☠️
Excellent video!! I have an average $500 telescope. I decided to buy filters from Amazon because they were inexpensive. One of them was nearly black and was to be used to look at the sun. I put it in the eye piece as instructed. I waited until the sun was just at about the horizon at dusk so the sun wasn’t so intense. So I put the filter on and rather than just look into the scope, I decided to use the cell phone adapter instead. THANK GOD I did that. As I was putting my phone on the telescope I heard a loud “pop”. I then instantly seen smoke….like a little trail kind of like what comes out of an old toy train set. I quickly took the phone off the telescope but it was too late. The sun must have been so intense, it expanded the black glass on the filter and it basically exploded….then the focused light hit the camera lens on my eye phone and melted it making it start to smoke. Destroyed my phone. I took a picture with my wife’s phone of the filter and posted it on Amazon in the reviews. Had I looked with my eye instead of the phone, I’d be totally blind today. All I can say is never trust any filter or set up no matter what. Cheap Chinese shit. I bet someone has lost an eye along the way. It is so dangerous it’s not funny. I’ll look at other peoples sun photography…,I’ll never try that shit again. Can’t imagine what it would have done had it been high noon….I was using it at sunset!
Wow, very close call. Thanks for sharing
Dang, thank you for telling us
I am blind from looking at the sun with a 25x100 binoculars
Damn holy crap dude you are very lucky and smart for using your phone!
@@Jupiter-shorts_ oh God. So sorry to hear that. Breaks my heart.
imagine the first person to see the sun without the solar filter and then he invented
Galileo damaged his eyesight by looking at the sun with his telescope.
And it was only about 7x
@@philgiglio7922yeah I was thinking the same thing
What happens
@@philgiglio7922Smartest people do dumb shit sometimes.
@@mande-lorean2182 Curiosity is known to kill cats.
That is an awesome setup, I'd love to be able to have something like that. The planets and stars don't look how they show us they do, far more beautiful than they show us.
Fun fact - Galileo saw directly through telescope and last one eye.
I did this once even when I knew not to and i went blind for like 5 seconds
Reminds me of the time lightning strick a sewer drain about 50 ft away from me
Went blind for a second because I looked at the sewer drain right as the lightning struck
The house shook
I had been in the process of walking back in when it hit
I also could t hear for a second
And lastly
I accidentally touched metal the was touching the ground
My arms swung around with the force of an asteroid going the speed of light
Now I live to use electricity to activate my muscles because it’s interesting
I took a plasma glove apart and it turns out it can burn you
So ye
@@asherkey394man shut your goofy ass up
@@joshuacroy3888 My cousin wanted to do that once. I'm so glad i took it away and didn't let him.
We all learn our own way
@@joshuacroy3888 That's sad man
That’s a pretty badass telescope
dude didn’t need a car
AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO PUT CAMERA IN THIS TELESCOPE 😂😂
That’s a awesome looking telescope you got there. This video was awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Also, avoid cheap eyepiece filters, crappy ones can explode. Get a good filter. Also inspect the filter before using it; a scratch might impair it seriously.
You're probably better with filter film sheet that goes over the opening before light even ever enters the telescope. They also work with binoculars.
That demonstration was low-key terrifying
Phoebe once said "My eyes, my eyes!!!!'
Thanks for showing that! Great demonstration and views of the sun!
His girlfriend bought the telescope to keep an eye on him
I bet he uses a telescope to keep an eye on her when she undresses
@@CanberraUser dude what the fuck
@@tf_d Don't tell me he doesn't get those urges
@@CanberraUser nah, he actually gets to see her up close, and oh my gosh maybe even physical contact. Relationships...crazy.
Quite literally
The ignition point of paper in old fashioned farnenhite is actually "Farenhite 451" there was a book and film about it.
🤓 jk. Thanks for sharing
It’s actually a bit higher because whoever initially measured it was off by a little.
Fahrenheit*
@@Freezee That's what you get for not using metric.😁
@@oscargr_ Wait what? I just corrected his spelling lmao
I like how the eyepiece was glowing white as if you had a portal to Hell in that telescope.
Fun fact that fire storm was bigger then the entire earth
Like one of my Optical Line Systems lecturers said: " never look at the end of a fibre optic cable with your remaining working eyeball."
? What?
That's wierd because it's really not that strong, single mode wavelength that is so low red almost infrared there for not high energy. Maybe a trunk line has like 50 of them in a bundle.
Ah, yes. You hate it when it happens.
Why does he have one working eyeball?
Virgin telescope attachments vs Chad with an eye patch after seeing the sun the way god intended
ngl I’d rather HAVE MY EYE then look at the sun “the way god intended”
@@Eid0lonic weak
@@josephgilboy6259 eyeless
@@Eid0lonic So you want to have eyes and then gaze upon the sun?
@@GlitchedBlox never said I wanted to look at the sun
"Aww would ya look at that"
Someone should've told Ed Bassmaster
its so cool when you realize those flares are the size of multiple earths
With the right lense setup you can actually see the sunspots on the sun projected onto a piece of paper and if held still enough, will imprint/burn the image onto the paper like a painting. The lenses dont usually last though.
That telescope robotic moves are so smooth! Plus those sounds of Stepper motors that go woooooo! Like it's from a sci-fi movie
I look directly at the sun when it's night time.
It gets even a little scarier because your eyes have their own lenses that focus it even more!
About 200x concentration. That's often overlooked. Also why sunglasses are important.
“My girlfriend’s telescope,” good one 😂
That's why I bought sunglasses
No one is going to look through that for more than a fraction of a second, I’m sure you would feel it
"Not gonna be too fun for your eyeballs." No, it'll be exhilarating.
the sickest part is the way it just positions itself at the sun :O
The atmosphere is what makes the sun spread equilibrium in the earth
For a second it sounded like he was gonna prank his girlfriend 😂
A solar filter on the aperture of the telescope is much safer. Temperatures in the scope can get quite high when the filter is on the eyepiece.
Yes, according to my knowledge it's strongly dissuaded to attach a solar filter on the eyepiece. It should always be attached in front of the aperture.
@@patricj951 Daystar Quark is not a normal film/glass solar filter. It has series of filters which block the light and pass only the Ha (hydrogen alpha) wavelength.
Love how he used his gf telescope 😂
Translated:
"I feel like making a random video to prove to everyone I can have a girlfriend.
I guess I'll make it about space or something to look legit ".
@@shaquadradeloiserussell8659 dude what? are you his ex or something?
Great view of the sun's magnetic plasma arcs
Paper burning was enough for me imagining my eyeballs cooking in the oven at 500°C was extra.
"What happens when you point your telescope at the sun?"
You start questioning whether your parents are siblings.
My professor was telling me they made a contraption that used the suns sunlight energy to melt through half a foot inch steel in a matter of minutes. They used thousands of mirrors that all aimed to do so. Absolutely wild
Platinum wasn't melted until someone focused sunlight on a nugget with a large lens, sometime in the 1700s. No fire could be made hot enough at the time.
@@ethorii That is pretty interesting. I do know Platinum has a pretty high melting point. Crazy that they didn’t have a furnace or forge hot enough for it. Even more surprised that they made enough mirrors to do so
@@dracomadness792 I would guess they tried to melt it then gave up when it didnt melt in their furnace, and just said this metal cant be melted
That said, now just look at the stone work at Mt. Kailash...
That shot is unbelievable
If you saw sun from your eyesballs then they become "fireballs" in couple of seconds 😂
Dude your girlfriend is gonna be pissed that you messed up the tube and lenses, best of luck
He's going to need a telescope to see his girlfriend getting undressed because he won't be allowed anywhere near her
Jesus that telescope setup is sick I can only imagine how expensive that has to be
24k
We'll never know, his girlfriend got it for him and she aint talking
Hey bud. Please Don't take the Lord's name in vain.
@@mercymasih8138 i like your hair my guy.
You can start a fire like this
"This is the thundercougarfalconbird filter, it blocks most of the incoming light from the sun"
Shut up and take my money
The fact that pointing a modern telescope into the sun could literally burn paper makes this shit more intimidating to use
Can't resist the urge to look at the sun...
Doesn't have to be a modern one. Litterally any telescope ever built does this.
You can easily burn paper with that in a second, but somehow solar tiles are weak enough to generate any energy
@@jensenraylight8011 well you can also easily burn paper with the electricity that comes from a solar panel, so I don't really get your point.
@@Niko-zf5ml what i meant is that, nobody is trying to figure out how to store that generous amount of energy or convert that heat into electricity.
All the news out there only talking about solar panel only capable of generating miniscule amount of energy.
While in this video, we saw that combination of lens have the abundance of energy to burn that paper not in minute but in second.
Clearly that was far from "miniscule" energy
I just look at the sun with my Snapchat filter
Sun is dancing back and forth at the end.
Sun be like- I am too hot to handle...
Not everyone,can afford me...
It’s hard to get a shot of planets bc of these clouds 😂
I had a magnifying mirror on my kitchen table. It caught the sun's reflection and set my retro vinyl kitchen chair on fire.
Never leave any kind of magnifying glass, eyeglasses, or curved makeup mirrors in the area of a sunny window.
And don't litter. Glass bottles have started forest fires this same way.
Thats so scary
i can’t believe lance armstrong walked on that
That the Sun is just this huge nuclear reactor that we are circling around is a very strange thought
451 degrees Fahrenheit to be precise.
Just imagine how far the sun is from us and still it can burn you
God put it in the right place when he created the world. Praise the Lord. Genesis 1.
The very moment it fails, your new pirate life will start
crazy how this red floating star is keeping us all alive
her telescope 300, his solar filter 1500
Did you know that nighttime only occurs because Chuck Norris stares at the sun until it looks away? True story
Is your time machine broken?
@@Shigellosis that’s actually a buttplug.
I'd had a department store telescope as a kid that had come with a "solar filter", a dark glass that screwed into the end of the eyepiece. It had produced a decent image of sunspots right up until the point where the intense heat on the filter caused it to crack. That was over 55 years ago and I still clearly remember the look of that sudden brilliant crack of collected sunlight impinging upon my retina. Those cheap filters were outlawed (I think) but I still have one on my shelf as a reminder. To this day, I can hardly believe I wasn't blinded in the least by that occurrence.
It’s a known danger, I’ve always been taught not to use an eyepiece filter but only main aperture filter. I guess it happened to many people
@@Chwibon The danger's known now; we were the kids who'd let it be known. Those ocular filters were outlawed a few years after my experience. Thank goodness for Mylar!
Eyepieces, ed, multiples, etc., whether to meet your needs
The little voice in my head would of told me to put my eye really close to the looking portion of the scope to see what happens
Why you should never point your girlfriend's telescope at the son:
"Why don't you take a seat? I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC."
This is criminally underag... underated Underated!
That’s a beautiful piece of equipment you have for that telescope. I think something like that should come with every telescopes.
very good english
Something like that filter is $1300.
I like how you said quite safe and not just safe
Thanks
This is really helpful
Anyone who looks at the sun through an unfiltered lens deserves the Darwin award.
I did when i was young. For a brief moment the whole sun was dark and the circle around the sun is the bright one. But at that moment i know it was dangerous. I think since then my eyes has been weak. And my myopia develops significantly over years. I actually have different vision between the two eyes. Sometimes i have wandering eyes where only one eye focuses on the object but the other eye wanders off.
My vision was healthy but it's quite bad now.
And yes i deserve an oscar for my stupidity.
@Gabriela Tifany uh oh, that doesn't good, but hey, what you are saying could be because of multiple reasons. Better to see an eye specialist to see if there is any damage.
@@romz1 yup. i think it damaged my eyes but probably not too much. but i think it does worsen my myopia quite a bit. but i would blame most of my myopia for me getting too used to seeing things closely. but yeah. thanks.
someone must have found out the hard way
A lot of people like to throw around words like "Darwin award" for stupidity but not really understanding the concept behind it.