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Article #4014Direct view solar filters
From: Tom Jaskiewicz
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1986 23:19
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1986 23:19
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In an article, someone wrote: >surface, like a screen or flat sheet. Or you may want to use a safe >filter. An easy, cheap filter is . . . Please don't give advice like this in a large forum like net.astro. Even if it is perfectly safe, a well-meaning, innocent person can misinterpret the instructions, or use very similar materials, or take a shortcut that doesn't work, . . . And in the case of a direct view solar filter, that person could blind themself. A friend once saw me just showing my own homemade (and perfectly safe!) filter to a curious person. My friend pointed out that I really shouldn't have done it. The third person could have seen my filter and tried to make one like it, without realizing that the exact materials I used were vital. I've been pretty careful since then. Please be careful too. -- #################################################################### # uucp: decvax!linus!alliant!tj ## Bernese are mountains of love. # ####################################################################
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!think!nike!ll-xn!adelie!axiom!linus!alliant!tj From: tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz) Newsgroups: sci.astro Subject: Direct view solar filters Message-ID: <333@alliant.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 19:19:27 EDT Article-I.D.: alliant.333 Posted: Thu Oct 16 19:19:27 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 08:08:28 EDT Reply-To: tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz) Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Acton, MA Lines: 21