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>Visiting family at the weekend my brother showed me his solar telescope.
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>>A Coronado Personal Solar Telescope.
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>>I've not used one of these before and it was fascinating to be able to see the sun and solar flares etc. I could even see the granularity of the suns surface.>
>At a huge family reunion we had back in August, my 23-year-old nephew brought along his solar telescope. I was hoping we'd have a sunny weekend because I've seen those cool sun photos on spaceweather.com and I was looking forward to seeing them for real. Unfortunately, it was overcast all weekend and we never got to use Ben's telescope. Darn!
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>~~Bonnie
Why didn't you look at the clouds through the telescope? You could have seen a silver lining <g>
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