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Orion 1.25" Color Filter Set
Orion 1.25" Color Filter Set


 
Orion 1.25" Color Filter Set
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Description
 
    Features:
  • Color filters will enhance your view of the planets and Moon, enabling you to see more detail
  • High-grade Schott optical glass is vat-dyed for even color coating, then anti-reflection coated
  • Anodized aluminum cells are double-threaded to permit filter stacking
  • Includes #15 Deep Yellow, #25 Red, #58 Green and #80A Medium Blue
  • 1.25” diameter

Made from high-grade Hoya optical glass, each is vat-dyed for even color distribution and then fully antireflection coated. The glass is held in an anodized aluminum cell labeled with the appropriate Wratten filter number. The cell is double-threaded to permit threading of the filter into the barrel of an eyepiece as well as the stacking of filters for additional filtration options.

    Use the #15 Deep Yellow Planetary Filter for:
  • red and orange features on Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars
  • contrast of lunar features
  • low-contrast cloud detail on Venus

    Use the #25 Red Planetary Filter for:
  • Martian surface details in large scopes
  • bluish cloud regions on Jupiter and Saturn
  • contrast of Mercury against blue sky
  • cloud definition on Venus

    Use the #58 Green Planetary Filter for:
  • contrast of blue and red structures on Jupiter (including Red Spot)
  • melt lines around Martian polar ice caps
  • Saturn's cloud belts

    Use the #80A Medium Blue Planetary Filter for:
  • details in Jupiter's cloud belts and Red Spot
  • high clouds and polar caps on Mars
  • lunar surface details
  • Venus cloud features


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