AstroZap Baader Film Solar Filter for Meade ETX-125

Description

Unlike any other Solar Filter on the market, AstroSolar is CE-tested according to EG-Norm 89/686 and EN 169/92 ( notified body 0196). Coatings are inspected constantly for consistency to ensure your eye safety! Astrozap Solar Filter With AstroSolar the Sun appears in neutral white. Heavy duty threaded inserts and nylon thumbscrews ensure a secure fit. Due to it's neutral color balance, AstroSolar enables the use of various color (or interference) filters which allows the observer to concentrate on certain spectral passbands for investigations of different layers within the solar "atmosphere". Baader AstroSolar safety film has been approved for eye safety by the National Bureau of Standards in Germany, the PTB. Especially with an orange sun, it is very hard to see faculae regions which are visible predominantly in the blue wing of the spectrum. Pinholes do appear, but to 1 out of 10000 only in optical density 2.5! Baader AstroSolar film Filter cell constructed from lightweight 18Ga. Other films and some glass filters produce a blurry bluish or reddish Solar image, thereby cutting part of the spectrum. AstroSolar is essentially free from pinholes, since - other than with even the most expensive glass filters - it is coated on both sides, so that the chance of two pinholes overlapping each other is extremely faint. aluminum and powder coated white. All processes connected to this product have been thoroughly tested.

Key Features

• AstroSolar is essentially free from pinholes, since - other than with even the most expensive glass filters - it is coated on both sides, so that the chance of two pinholes overlapping each other is extremely faint.
• Due to it's neutral color balance, AstroSolar enables the use of various color (or interference) filters which allows the observer to concentrate on certain spectral passbands for investigations of different layers within the solar.
• Other films and some glass filters produce a blurry bluish or reddish Solar image, thereby cutting part of the spectrum.
• Baader AstroSolar film Filter cell constructed from lightweight 18Ga.
• Heavy duty threaded inserts and nylon thumbscrews ensure a secure fit.
• aluminum and powder coated white.