Dangerous Sun filter

[NGC404]

Its described as for photography. But I guess that solar filter will screw in an eyepiece (not advisable)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Optics-with-Sun-Moon-Filters-/121231888888?pt=UK_Photography_VintagePhotography_VintagePhotoAccessories&hash=item1c39fbd1f8

[JB80]

Well it looks like the seller doesn't know what he has to begin with....

Optics Presumably for a Camera

 

Moon & Sun Filters

 

I am assuming this all goes together

There can't be many of these things still around, a quick friendly message and tell him to bin it may do the trick. Maybe with tetenterre excellent vid attached.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xb3b-vRd4

[mert]

I sent  the seller a message.

[mert]

I emailed the seller and explained that it was a dangerous item, he agreed to remove it. 

[mert]

It's gone, good spot NGC404

 

[Wyvern]

Nice job people. Those damn screw in eyepiece    "solar filters"   were the worst and most lethal thing ever dispatched with some of the "cheap starter" telescopes. 

Sorry, personal rant over...... feel better..... thank you.

Les

[mert]

I got a sun filter with my Vixen 80mm refractor when I was a kid  that was in 86, it was bought from Charles Frank in Edinburgh, luckily I never used it as I'm sure Patrick Moore mentioned against solar observing on The Sky at Night back then.