Solar Finder-Scope for standard telescope mount by calderonf

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

WARNING: ONLY USE THIS IF YOUR TELESCOPE HAS A FULL-APERTURE SOLAR FILTER OR YOU COULD BLIND YOURSELF!!!!
Second Update:
Waiting for the Mercury transit, this thing is great!! as soon as i ger the first pics i will upload it here.
First Update:
I Finally have some good conditions in my city to test the finder. I upload some images of the thing.
And...
Works nice!!!,
The first time you use it, you have to draw a little point or any other mark in the position of the projected point in the finder base, where the sun is in the center of the ocular.
This is a remix using thinkercad, the editable source is at this link:
https://tinkercad.com/things/2uXa6XaYh42
It is mostly based on the excellent work of
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:972686
and using the base of:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:608140
Thank you for your lovely designs. I recreated them in thinkercad,
I use a paraboloid instead of a sphere. Mostly because it is easier to print and do not need any support material. But if you still like the original spherical design it is also included.