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NEODYMIUM LUNARDo not miss: & Skyglow-Filter The most important filter for the planetary season – eclipse better contrast for Mars, Moon and Jupiter. Planeopti- 27. July 2018 cally polished and MC-coated – with IR-cut coatings! Image: © Helmut Heinicke. Total lunar eclipse on september 28th, 2015 Image: © Helmut Heinicke. Total

Parallel lines in the interferogram – the final proof for true fine- optical quality. This filter is fit for every magnification – limited only by your telescope‘s aperture and the atmospheric seeing conditions.

Drastic contrast enhancement for all tele- • Fits all standard filter scopes, without loss of image brightness! This threads and can be com- filter is initially based on a development by Carl bined with other filters Zeiss. The effect of the element neodymium – e.g. the planeoptically as filter material is very impressive. If used as polished (!) Baader plan- co-mixture to optical glass, it improves the etary colour filters. This NEODYMIUM Moon & Skyglow-Filter contrast and enhances the red portions of way, you can see fine 1¼": #2458305A the image (especially for Mars and Jupiter). details better or com- 2": #2458334A At it blocks that part of the spectrum, bine several images with which suffers most from street – and it a monochrome camera to Just take a look blocks the , also known as „sky- achieve colour images. through the Moon & Sky- glow“. And lastly, the applied UV/IR block- • The filter is at the same time optimised glow-Filter with your naked eye to ing coating (Luminance-coating - check the for Astrophotography due to it‘s full UV/ spectral trace) cuts all unwanted UV below IR-blocking coating. When used with see its effect. Red and blue colours 400 nm and NIR above 700 nm - this makes DSLRs, will remain much tighter, are strongly intensified. If you‘ve it the „sharpest contrast enhancing filter“ for because the unfocussed UV and IR parts never seen the Great Red Spot on imaging. of the spectrum are blocked out. Jupiter – now you will find it. • Planeoptically polished; can be used without problems in front of a binoviewer Surface details on Mars, Jupiter and The filterholder BAADER Moon as well as many deep-sky-ob- or for afocal photography – far away from the focus without loosing sharpness! that adapts to UFCUniversal Filter Changer jects become much more prominent. • The fine-optical polish and absence of your needs! wedge error in the glass ensure perfect • Selective contrast filter, especially suit- The Baader-UFC (Universal sharpness when magnifying more than Filter Changer) is what you able for all reflector telescopes 200x - while the much cheaper “fire -pol- need for „quick-draw“ ex- • Filters out specific wavelengths, especial- ished” filter glasses destroy the optical change of filters during ima- ly those caused by streetlight and most wavefront at high mags ging and visual observation alike. A myriad of adapters importantly their scattered light which • Neodymium doped optical glass will fit the filter-changer onto lightens up the • Coatings Front/Back: 7-layer hard- almost any telescope. So • Selective blocking retains natural colours BBAR-coating / 27-layered dielectrical the core product must never be changed. Just buy another adapter intact but with RGB significantly enhanced, tb-Grafik Layout: changes. and technical reserve the right for errors IWe UV/IR-cut coating ring when moving on to another camera or tele- differences in colour and brightness persist. • Ultra-hard and durable Ion-beam hard- scope. More Information: • 95% transmission in the selected spectral ened coatings – may be cleaned anytime www.baader-planetarium.com/en/ufc range. without fear www.baader-planetarium.com/en/neodymium

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