Back when I used a smaller telescope that had a proper solar filter, I did not use a finder scope. I found the sun by watching the OTA's shadow, and when it was as small as possible in all direcitons, it was pointing at the sun. -- Joe Kurt Fisher <fisherka@csolutions.net> wrote: Forget it. Looks like the answer is no. 14 welder's glass - although that recommendation is limited to naked-eye observing. http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/safety.html Thanks - Kurt _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.