Solar Finder Scope Finished
This is one of those projects that I started many months ago but was put on the back burner while waiting for better weather. Back in March, I designed and built a solar finder scope but I had not painted it. I needed to wait until I could use some spray paint outdoors which means I needed warm weather and dry weather. In between other little projects, I managed to get this solar finder scope completed. Although the sun is very bright in our sky, it actually is difficult to get a telescope lined up with it for viewing through a telescope! The sun is so bright that you can't look directly at it so you then just guess where to point the telescope. You move the telescope up... then right... then left... then down... then up again... hoping to get it in your view. Alternately, you can try to minimize the telescope's shadow on the ground but that can also be a little frustrating. Instead of playing this little game of cat and mouse, I designed a solar finder scope to