Tele Vue Sol Searcher
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Tele Vue Sol Searcher

£25.00
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Model:  lunt_sol_searcher
Part Number:  SSF-1006

“I can’t find the Sun!”  Sounds funny.  However, the Sun is tricky to find in a properly filtered telescope, and you don’t ever want to chance a direct gaze, let alone a magnified image of it.

Sol-Searcher is the safe and easy way to find the Sun. It is absolutely safe since you don’t look through Sol-Searcher, you look at it. The aperture acts as a “pinhole” which projects an image of the Sun on to the 1/4″ translucent “screen.” This screen can be viewed from either side. Simply move your scope until the Sun’s image is centered on the screen and the Sun will be in the eyepiece’s field of view.

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Useful addition to any Lunt Solar Scope
Wednesday, 27 October 2021  | 

A useful addition. The Sol Searcher casts a bright disc on the black border (on the sun side) if the setup is way off.

The hole casts a bright disc on the white screen that's visible from either side if the setup is about right.

When centred on the screen and an EP zoomed out there is a 100% chance that the scope is aligned.

Initial alignment of the Tele Vue Sol Searcher can be done using the shadow of the lens hood on the clamshell...

On each side, there should be an even shadow - mine is about 4mm. The four Allen bolts and key make it easy to adjust and lock down.

The Sol Searcher is not completely essential but it makes the process much easier and isn't too costly...

Interestingly, on the Lunt website, it says many of the scopes now come with the Tele Vue Sol Searcher included.

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Best Solar finder
Wednesday, 28 April 2021  | 

Got mine mounted on the Tele Vue 3" Clamshell. Tried a few different solar finders and find this style the best.

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Sol finder
Thursday, 2 August 2018  | 

Perfect fit for my Lunt LS80T.

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Best finder I have used!
Friday, 20 March 2015  | 

I have one of these on my Lunt LS50THa. When I took it out of the box I was very skeptical about how it would perform but I must say that it is the easiest finder I have used in either daylight or darkness.

If you enjoy solar observing you need one of these in your life.

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