| If you are a backyard astrophotographer who has to do your imaging from a light-polluted city or suburban site, this 1.25" Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter will make your life a lot easier – and your images a lot better. The Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter lets you take incredible deep-sky images under light-polluted skies with your CCD camera or DSLR camera.
That’s because the Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter has been custom-designed to selectively block only the urban sky glow of mercury and sodium vapor street, security, and parking lot lights. It lets the light emitted from deep-sky objects shine through the light pollution. You see a marked increase in image contrast for all types of deep sky objects, even faint galaxies, which typically are suppressed when imaging through a visual light pollution filter.
By blocking up to 99% of only the offending sky glow wavelengths, the SkyGlow Imaging Filter lets you take longer CCD exposures without background saturation due to sky glow. Because the neutral white light spectrum remains largely intact, the color balance of the image is not affected, eliminating the need for corrective processing later.
The improvement in contrast achieved with the SkyGlow Imaging Filter is remarkable. Look at the actual filtered and unfiltered image examples in the feature image below. With this Orion filter you can take long-exposure CCD images of faint galaxies, nebulas, and star clusters from a light-polluted city, or from a suburban backyard brightened by nearby street lamps or a neighbor’s security light. Your images will turn out better than you ever thought possible.
The Orion SkyGlow Imaging filter is mounted in a aluminum cell with a standard 1.25" filter thread that mounts into the 1.25" nosepiece of all Orion StarShoot CCD cameras and most other brands of CCD and CMOS (webcam or Deep Sky Imager-type) cameras.
Don’t let light pollution spoil your deep-sky images. Get an Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter today and enjoy vivid, high-contrast CCD shots – from anywhere!
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