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Old 13-10-2010, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by mental4astro View Post
I'd suggest a pair of polarising filters piggy backed onto each other. These will vary the amount of light getting through according to their relative placement to eachother. Rotate one way, you get about 50% reduction. Rotate 90 degrees and you get nearly 100%.
How do you do that? As far as I can determine the 1.25" filters thread into the eyepiece. Doesn't that mean you have to take the eyepiece out of the focuser to change the relative orientation of the two filters?
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