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Originally Posted by GG Allin

A couple things to add. When I was a kid a friend had a telescope. Nothing special and this was the 80's. I remember it had a sun filter. A lot of the ones I see on Amazon don't say if that's included.

Also a few years ago my neighbors and I were observing a "UFO" from my front yard in the middle of the afternoon. What we were looking at was a small faint white dot way up in the sky that was slowly moving. Too far out to make out any details. A good telescope at the time would have helped to figure out what it actually was.

Most scopes don't come with a sun filter, but those are available for just about anything. Before the last solar eclipse a few years back, I bought a pair of solar binoculars, and they enabled me to see not only the eclipse, but even sunspots. I think solar filters and solar observing is cool. you just have to be careful because of the possible damage to the scope and your eyes.