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For almost all occasions the only perfectly safe way to view the Sun is to project the image, and that is our next major step, reviewed in the next chapter. Before doing so, there is a risk with some types of telescope which is of such potentially fatal consequences that it merits repetition in some detail here.
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Maunder, M., Moore, P. (2000). Observing the Sun: Full-Aperture Filters. In: Transit When Planets Cross the Sun. Practical Astronomy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0373-8_14
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