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Originally Posted by pin3appl3
Doug those photos are awesome. Im getting into astrophotography and have a canon 50D and a skywatcher ED80 pro. I enjoy terrestrial photography as well so I dont think (yet anyways  ) ill get a CCD so filters seem the way to go to bring out the colour. Ive been looking on the bintel website, which filter/s would you recommend starting out? Cheers mate |
Cheers, probably best to start with a decent light pollution filter - especially if you're imaging from suburban Brisbane. This will allow you to push your exposures past the point where they might normally be "fogged out" by the light pollution from your area. A 2" filter would sit in your imaging train nicely.
The Hutech LPS2 is thought of very highly - perhaps a bit more pricey than others, but well worth it.
http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/idas/lps.htm
Occasionally come up in the classifieds here.
From there you could expand into Ha filter imaging - for those high contrast B&W images you see posted. These can be blended in with your normal colour shots to bring out very nice detail in nebulae.
I own 3 filters - Hutech IDAS LPS2 light pollution filter, Astronomik 12nm Ha and OIII filters.
Cheers
Doug
