welcome to amateur astronomy Daine
, its fun shopping for astro goddies alright
$$$ , if I was you as you want to go the filter way , the glass ones from Bintel are the way to go , these are much stronger and give a really nice yellow/orange colour to the sun and lots of people perfur this to the white/purple image thrown up by the film ( Maylar) filters these film filters are also quite fragile and pin holes can appear if not looked after carefully and dangerous if left to grow bigger
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But on that I once had a Kendrik Maylar film solar filter and the detail seen thru this one equalled my Lunt wedge , it was by far the best I had seen until the Lunt wedge arrived , great filter but I don't think they are available in OZ ? someone might know ?.
Brian.
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Originally Posted by daine042
Thanks guys i think i might go with the less expensive option and get the film. Seems like you get a reasonable image at less than half the price. Whats the astroshop like for turn around times should have just grabbed a sheet while i was at andrews coms yesterday but blew out my budget on a diagonal
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