Which Type of Astrodon Filter for ASI1600MM ?

garyi

Sam,

I plan to purchase the mini-EFW for the 1600, when you put it up for sale this month. I plan to buy the high quality 1.25 inch Astrodon filters for it. They offer two types for LRGB - E-Series and I-Series. As you can see from the attachments, the only difference is that the E-series blocks some of the lower end of the red spectrum.

Here are the descriptions:

I-Series filters are designed to approximately equalize the flux of Interline CCD detectors (formerly Kodak), including compensation for the solar photon flux. The I-Series filters compensate for the lower red response of these Interline detectors affecting the design of the Green and Red filters.

E-Series filters are designed to approximately equalize the flux of red-sensitive full-frame (formerly Kodak E-Series) CCD detectors, including compensation for the solar photon flux. This means that your RGB color combine weights will be approximately 1 within perhaps 10% for equal length exposures.

Which series would be most appropriate for use with the ZWO ASI1600MM camera?

Thanks,

Gary

riklaunim

Astrodon filters are rather a matter of personal taste. Color balance can always be changed in post processing. I use Baader filters as their cut-off is the smallest (which is most handy for planetary imaging).

Sam@ZWO

you can also consider our new LRGB filters which optimised for our 1600

so it can reach nearly 1 exposure

david_l

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Sam@ZWO

we already released the New RGBL filters

david_l

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