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Old 15-07-2014, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by RickS View Post
You won't get any Hb, Paul. As Kevin said, that's way down in the blues. A 5nm Ha filter will also get NII however, and there is often some of this about. Ha has a wavelength of 656.28nm and NII is at 658.36nm. A 3nm filter cuts out the NII as I found to my chagrin when imaging the Helix. A 5nm filter would have got me combined Ha+NII data and delivered good SNR much faster...

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Rick.

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Originally Posted by cometcatcher View Post
Yeah Hb is up around 486.1nm. I'd like to see more NB imaging with it. Must not be popular for some reason.
Ah of course. I had that ballsed up. It was NII I was thinking of. Thanks for the clarification.
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