Been thinking...

[geppetto]

Bad thing I know

Those heavily armoured binoculars on poles at the sea side that you thread cash

in for a look out to sea..

Whats to stop you pointing them at the sun and burning your eyeballs :?

[Cloudwatcher]

Pain......Or in a few cases,Common Sense.

[GordonCopestake]

You get a darwin award if you do that.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Plus I think they are designed so they dont tilt up much... mores the pitty, more people might look at the moon at least then!

[centroid]

Not a lot I suspect Phil.

I guess there's probably a limiting stop on altitude, but I reckon at certain times of the day, tha Sun call fall nicely into view.

Then again, what's to stop anybody accidently training a normal pair of bins on the Sun, when perhaps following an aircraft across the sky.

Dave

[Akyra]

The local ones have very little movement in them, pretty useless to be honest.

An early morning sun would be bright and low in the sky though, I have never heard of anyone doing such a thing, but humans being humans, I'm sure someone has done this!