A Solar Diversion
I'm finally beginning to feel "halfway" decent lately which is a tremendous change in my health since September of last year so I'm now trying to catch up on little (and big) projects that need to be accomplished around the house. I've done some raking outside on a rare sunny day... I've replaced a leaky bathroom faucet... I've replaced our locksets and deadbolts... I installed all the window screens around the house... I've rebuilt and restored an older computer to use for astronomy... I installed a new focuser on a fairly large telescope... I've tuned up and adjusted my largest telescope mount... then, yesterday morning, when I saw that we had a sunny day with some decent visibility, I had to pull out my newest telescope to view the sun! Decent visibility is a rarity these days and it significantly impacts viewing the sky, day or night, with a telescope. This is why NASA prefers to launch their telescopes into space to view from there