re: Re: ATM Sungazing for Newbies?

["Tony Dunlap" <tdunlap@odot.dot.ohio.gov>]

FW> He tells a great story and I too enjoyed it,
FW> but would you confirm for me the truth or
FW> fiction that in attempting to focus the sun's rays
FW> you could inadvertantly focus them on the eyepiece
FW> lens and cause it to crack or shatter?  Is this an
FW> old wives tale or a real possibility?

When I was young and dumb (I'm older now), I aimed a cheap reflector at the 
sun (I wasn't THAT dumb, I was projecting). When the image got too close to 
the edge of the lense it melted the plactic housing (I told you it was cheap).

Later