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Old 01-05-2014, 06:41 AM
Kunama
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Originally Posted by Merlin66 View Post
Aaron,
The recommended safe visual solar filtering level is ND3 (i.e. 1/1000 transmission)
Using the Herschel wedge with this level of filter will not cause eye damage.
However, the resulting image may still appear relatively bright and adding say a variable polarised filter or a Continuum filter (added contrast) may make viewing more comfortable.
Hope this helps.
+1 .........
I find the SC also improves the amount of detail you see, but does give you a lime green image of the sun. If not using the SC, I usually add a ND 0.9 filter with the 3.0, I don't use the single polarizer.
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