Thread: filters
View Single Post
  #2  
Old 30-07-2010, 04:58 AM
astro744
Registered User

astro744 is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,244
Have a look at http://www.lumicon.com/telescope-acc...ensity+Filters for some information.

Also http://www.bintel.com.au/Filters.html which are available locally.

The ND96 (13%) transmission filter is all you will need in either 1.25" or 2" depending on which eyepiece you will use it with most. The 25% filter is fine for crescent phases of the Moon.

My experience with polarizing filters is that that they have a detrimental effect on resolution (small craters simply vanish!).

Colour filters are for highlighting planetary details of various colours. eg. a red feature will appear darker with a blue filter.
Reply With Quote