[SGVHAK] Anyone have a cheap telescope? (Solar eclipse booth at March for Science Pasadena on Saturday

[Homan Chou via HAK]

Lan, I have a telescope you can borrow.

On Apr 20, 2017 10:55 AM, "Lan Dang via HAK" <hak at sgvhak.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I somehow have ended up in charge of a solar eclipse booth* at the March
> for Science Pasadena outreach fair at Memorial Park this Saturday, from
> 9:30am to 11am.   No, I am neither an expert nor an enthusiast, but there
> is a plethora of free educational material I can leverage for some
> activities and handouts.
> https://www.facebook.com/MarchForSciencePasadena
>
>
> One of the activities involves pointing a cheap telescope at the sun, and
> putting some white paper on the eye-piece side, so you can indirectly view
> the sun.  (One should obviously not look through the telescope into the sun
> without putting the appropriate filter on the telescope.)
>
> Anyone have a cheap telescope I can borrow?  The event is on Saturday.
> I'd like it by Friday night at the latest, since I need to make  a
> cardboard baffle to cast a shadow on the paper, thereby highlighting the
> sun.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lan
>
>
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