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Old 24-01-2010, 05:52 AM
Craig.a.c (Craig)
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Originally Posted by casstony View Post
A green filter (in addition to a front solar filter) is the cheapest way to slightly improve white light views, and the Baader solar continuim filter is supposed to give a further incremental improvement. Try various filters you have to see what works - you can combine green/nebula filters to reduce bandwidth/brightness, though the image may be too dim if there isn't enough overlap of the passbands of the two filters.

Thanks for the reply casstony. I have tried using yellow and green filters along with the solar film but they didn't seem to make much difference apart from making the sun appear yellow or green. I thought that since nebula filters enhance the hydrogen and helium it may do the same with the sun.
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