4.25 Reflectors

Light and small, easy to take on a trip this is a very nice size instrument to own. Sure, there isn't a lot of light grasp here but there are a number of advantages.Cool down time is as little as 10 to 15 minuets with as miuch as a 50 degree tempeture diffrence! That means you can pull your little scope out of a 70 degree house and observe in 20 degree weather within almost no time flat!

Here is one of my 4.25 inch reflecting telescopes. This telescope has a sun projecting screen attached to the side of the tube. You can observe the sun with out the worry of loosing your sight because the intense solar image is projected onto the screen. The projected image is quite safe then to look at.
Looking at a projected image of the sun on the screen.
We are looking at the sun's image projected onto a sun projector screen of a small reflecting telescope. Here we are focusing the telescope to get a sharp image of the sun on the screen.
As we focus we look for the sharpest disk we can. In this image we are assured sharp focus because the edge of the suns disk is wll defined and I can see some dark spots on the right side of the disk, as shown in this image. Sun spots move accross the sun's surface and are often but not always present. Be sure when using this sun projection viewing method to carefully focus and hopefully you can see sun spots too!