tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz) (10/17/86)
In an article, someone wrote: >surface, like a screen or flat sheet. Or you may want to use a safe >filter. An easy, cheap filter is . . . Please don't give advice like this in a large forum like net.astro. Even if it is perfectly safe, a well-meaning, innocent person can misinterpret the instructions, or use very similar materials, or take a shortcut that doesn't work, . . . And in the case of a direct view solar filter, that person could blind themself. A friend once saw me just showing my own homemade (and perfectly safe!) filter to a curious person. My friend pointed out that I really shouldn't have done it. The third person could have seen my filter and tried to make one like it, without realizing that the exact materials I used were vital. I've been pretty careful since then. Please be careful too. -- #################################################################### # uucp: decvax!linus!alliant!tj ## Bernese are mountains of love. # ####################################################################