Telescope, Sunspotter, Folded- Keplerian, Project Star

this is the introductory video for the astronomy 1100 Sun spotter experiment specifically this video will teach you how to take data the department has two different Sun spotter telescopes they come under these blue covers the way in which these work is that sunlight comes through this large lens at the front comes back here bounces off a mirror comes over here bounces off another mirror comes up to the top there's a third mirror there and on this black platform there's another lens which acts as an eyepiece but you don't put your eyeball up to it instead it casts an image onto this white paper here it's important of course that we cast the image onto paper you should never look through a telescope at the Sun it will destroy your eyesight almost instantaneously unless it has the appropriate filters on it so by casting the image onto a piece of paper the Sun spotter telescope gives us a