The Sol Searcher is an excellent tool to assist in accurately aligning your telescope on the sun. Importantly you can align the telescope with your back to the sun thereby obviating the need to look towards the sun that other sun finders rely on. This is a vital safety consideration given that looking directly at the sun is extremely dangerous.

Excellent Sun sight. Neat and well made. All it needs is sunshine just what we all want. Fast delivery and prompt and efficient service.

Probably the cheapest thing I have bought off FLO but it makes such a big difference to my solar observing.
No more trying to line up by eye, sometimes taking minutes!
I can now be pointing right at the sun in 5 seconds!
Fits perfectly on my Lunt 50mm

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.

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

Perfect fit for my Lunt LS80T.

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.