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

[Lan Dang via HAK]

Thanks, Homan.  However, it turned out it was not a style I knew how to work with.
What I'm trying to do with the telescope is outlined here:http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/how-to-look-at-the-sun/#projection

So it seems like the cheapest tube telescope would be suitable.  I have to make a cardboard collar for it.
Anybody else?
Lan

      From: Homan Chou via HAK <hak at sgvhak.net>
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 Subject: Re: [SGVHAK] Anyone have a cheap telescope? (Solar eclipse booth at March for Science Pasadena on Saturday
   
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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