And in this article it was talking about looking at the sun with a telescope how is this possible? wouldn't it in effect be like sticking a laser to your eye ieven if the didn't look through it but put it on a monitor wouldn't the incoming beam incinerate what ever it hit
2007-04-20 05:48:59 · 11 answers · asked by Brak 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Maybe its talking about a telescope that is digital and can take pics on your computer screen. Dont ever look at the sun, even with UV Glasses!
2007-04-20 05:52:13 · answer #1 · answered by pthc69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most likely possibility is that someone was using a telescope that where a person doesn't actually look at the real image. For instance, X-ray and infrared telescopes take pictures in wavelengths we can't see and generate a visible image from the data.
Lots of telescope work on the sun is done in this way. It is also possible, however, to use a modified 'scope that literally blocks out the middle of the view, in this case the sun, so you can look at the corona. This is done by millions during a solar eclipse, although it is still not recommended that you look directly at the corona, only look at the reflection.
2007-04-20 12:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by stephangoodwin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can point a telescope at the sun and project the image onto a piece of paper. When it's in focus, you can see the edge of the sun and sunspots on the surface of the sun. Never look at the sun directly through a telescope.
2007-04-20 13:27:26 · answer #3 · answered by Surveyor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all telescopes look in the optical region that we see in. There are also infrared, radio frequency, high energy particle and other instruments. There are special telescopes to view the sun in the optical band by using indirect focusing techniques.
2007-04-20 12:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by bobweb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a filter that goes over the front of the scope that filters it down by a thousand times or so.
2007-04-20 12:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to have a special lens that is essentally a super dark sunglass lense. you pretty much cant see through it at all except when looking at the sun.
2007-04-20 12:55:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless they found a way to block the ultraviolet rays coming off it.
2007-04-20 12:52:41 · answer #7 · answered by Dave S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You put a filter over the lense silly.
2007-04-20 12:51:18 · answer #8 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you use filters. and putting it to a monitor would not burn anything out.
2007-04-20 12:52:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All danger is removed if you observe it at night.
2007-04-20 12:52:40 · answer #10 · answered by lunatic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋