ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY GUIDE: How to Choose a Filter for One Shot Color Cameras?
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Hello all, in this video, I will go over how to pick and choose your very own astrophotography filter by showing you how to read a spectrum/transmission graph. I hope this will help you carve out your own upgrade path!
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THANK YOU!!... This is the first time I really understood about the various type of filters and why the variance in the thickness of each filter. Plus now I understand why I would use one filter over the other for imaging my DST. I currently have the L extreme and L enhance but didn't know when to use one over the other. I live in a bortle 9 area in southern california. I have enjoy your videos and you have given me good advice on equipment I am choosing. Especially coming from a newbie point of view and not trying to make the very expensive mistakes.
I'm glad to hear that! I think if people are able to get a basic understanding, then they can carve out their own upgrade path towards their own individual goals.
You call the video boring, I would call it highly interesting! Thanks for explaining with so much clarity and patience.
After having watched a lot of videos about filters I have to say this is EXACTLY the one i was looking for. Like you said your self in video. Not about someone telling you what to use but some one educating you and helping you to understand what to choose! Perfect! Thank you so much!!!
Good....No, GREAT video!! Well explained. Very well explained. Very informative.
Great job! I wasted many valuable hours using the wrong filter. Now I have a better understanding. Thanks.
I am glad it was helpful to you! What filter would you look into next?
@@nocturneastro2539 I have all three you mentioned. But I can better discriminate between them and on which nebulae.
Thanks for this, it really helped me to understand the different filters and what they do! Keep it up!
Not a boring video at all.. just technical or, 'dry as a popcorn fart', as one of my teachers used to say.
Looking forward to seeing your setup at the new place Angus so keep us posted.
I will keep you guys posted. I hope in the next video, I can start imaging. And thanks for watching this video.
You are adorable walking away to look at your screen!
Your video is exactly what I was looking for.
Most informative. Thank you for expanding my understanding of the narrow band graphs.
This was an excellent education. Greatly appreciated!
This was an excellent video.Great information that was very helpful.
Excellent video/information. I'm just starting out and this was awesome.
Well Done. I applaud your presentation.
10 star tutorial on filters. Appreciated/very very helpful, concise, thorough....plus understandable :)
Your way of explaining the complicated subject very easily.
Very nice and informative video.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks, this video was Informative and entertaining...
Happy new year to you as well Angus, excellent video, Thank you very much
Thanks and happy new year! Thanks for visiting and clear skies!
Thank you very very much for this very useful information.Greetings from Belgium.
Informative and entertaining. Thanks
Well done!
Excellent video
Not a clue until now, how to go about reading the graphs . Now I do, thanks to you . Cheers for that 👍
You're very welcome! Clear skies!
Good video Angus. Well explained and illustrated.
Thank you!
Highly instructive video : thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
I just got myself an l-pro for shooting my broadband targets. I’m in a bottle 4 but sadly, I am surrounded by lots of city lights that ruin my sessions.
Good video as always ! 👍 ´hope you will have better sky quality in your new location !
Hey thanks for checking out the video as always! My new location technically has worse conditions. I am still in San Francisco, except now I am now two blocks away from the Pacific Ocean. I don't know how much of that ocean moisture will affect me, but hey... it can't get any worse right? Either way, I am looking forward to start imaging there. Besides, the new place actually poses a new challenge for me already. More of that in the next video (hopefully, weather permitting).
Thank you. Very good video and now I understand the difference between the filters. I am wondering is there value to have and use these filters with an astro modified camera. I guess I am still confused over removing filters to let more light in and adding filters to cut down on light let in. Or are these filters really only of benefit with unmodified cameras?
Not boring!!!
Nicely explained video I certainly learned things about those graphs I didn't know. I live in a bortle 4 zone but I got an L-Extreme to help with moonlight (always seems to be clear around a full moon) and also the much smaller stars it produces.
Thank you! I am glad the video helped! A narrowband filter such as L-eXtreme will still be useful even in bortle 4 skies!
Thank you!! Well explained and clear. I now understand filters a lot better. Will receive my Optolong L-enhance next week. Good for my Bortle 6-7 sky.
I'm glad it helped. My goal was to help people make their own purchase decision based on their own individual needs, versus "here, buy this, because I said so" haha :)
Hope you'll like your Optolong L-enhance! Although, I would recommend the L-Ultimate if you have the budget for it. I did a video on it.
Thank you, very informative. I wish you included some info about other kind of filters also, like the UV/IR-Cut filter, why and when to use it.
I have an L-ultimate and L-pro on the way for bortle 7 backyard and I do a lot at bortle 2 when camping. I got the L-pro for bortle 2 I didn’t realize it was strong enough for a place like San Francisco I’ll definitely use it in the backyard now too!
I am planning to get Optolong L-pro for my bortle 8/9 backyard imaging. I will get the clip-on filter so I can use multiple lenses and scope. My only concern is that some people said focusing is tricky.
Super Helpful! So, sounds like you would never want get the L-Enhance, so why does it exist?
I'm just starting to understand filters and your explanation was great. Where do you find recommended filter information for a specific target? If you are imaging a galaxy in dark skies then probably not use a filter or just a broadband to improve contrast? For nebula you mentioned reflective and emission types? How do you know a nebula is reflective or emission? Is there a list of targets by M or NGC names that has imaging recommendations? Rather than searching Cloudy Nights.
amazing well explained
Thank you!
Very Good
Great explanation. Really enjoyed the video, sir.
Thank you! I hope it was useful!
@@nocturneastro2539 definitely cleared up things since I have a multiband filter similar to the L-Pro 👍🏾
Thank you
My images have that yellow glow instead of the nice dark sky, what filter should i use?
L-Ultimate coming out soon with a 3nm bandpass :)
Yeah and it'll probably cost $2,000 😅
you should setup affiliate links for the filters you discuss ...
Here’s my question, and small concern, I guess -
With the narrowband filters, are they going to cut out so much light that the stars are too faint for scope alignment/tracking? Should I use something like L Pro or Baader Neodymiam until slewing to vicinity of specific nebula, and then swap to narrowband? 🤷🏼♂️
I’m in bortle 6-7 skies, and the last couple of nights, the moon has been so bright, on top of yellow street lights, that I didn’t even bother to get outside. The only thing I’d be able to align the scope on is the moon (Nexstar 8SE) via solar align.
It's not a concern, it's an actual thing. 😀 Sometimes I can't plate solve properly because the starts are not apparent enough with these narrowband filters. So I end up having to plate solve without a filter, then swap in my narrowband. Or bump up the plate solving exposure time.
@@nocturneastro2539 yeah, I was thinking maybe L-enhance or even something a little less aggressive from lumicon or Baader - just something to get the moon and light pollution down to a level that allows me to see stars .. and then, when already on target with a particular nebula, swap to one of the more aggressive, contrasty narrowband filters. We’ll see. Have yet to buy any filters at all, so trying to keep the expense down while not wasting money on crap that doesn’t work, and without sacrificing decent quality as well.
The video was helpful - Sub’d.
The L-enhance might be a good middle of the road. Then, can get less/more aggressive based on results.
Funny, because the next town over, approx 5 miles west, is supposedly Bortle 3 skies.
Question: with the l-extreme.. I have read that people have seen halos around stars... whats your experience??
I'm afraid what you've read is true for most cases when it comes to the Optolong L-Extreme. I too have issues with it when it comes to halo. I have a way to minimize the halo in post editing, but optically, it is there. I have a video on how to get rid of halos in post editing.
@@nocturneastro2539 thanks! I guess I will stick with the l-enhance I already have ... would prefer doing as less of post processing as possible