Baader IR-Pass Filter (685 nm)

This dependes on the sensitivity of the camera, and if it includes a built-in or removable IR-blocking filter. A camera like the QHY 5-III-462C has got a removable IR-filter and is designed for IR-sensitivity. The ASI 462 looks promising, too, according to the QE curve published for it. So yes, the filter can be used with colour cameras, too, if they are sensitive for IR. To take RGB, you have to remove the filter and then can take RGB in one shot as usual. If possible, replace it with a UV/IR-cut filter like Baader UV/IR-Cut / L-Filter 1¼" – CMOS-optimized #2961570. The focus or your telescope's color correction might beslightly different for RGB and IR, so check the focus again. For changing the filters, we'd recommend either filter drawers like our UFC system, or a filter wheel. That's the fastet way, and you don't change the orientation of the camera, which makes combining the colour channels easier, and you can use flats.

Unfortunately we don´t have an solution or an adapter for this purpose

We don't have a transmission diagram for this filter ourselves currently. The base of the filter is a Schott-equivalent absoption glass RG 630 (you can look up its properties in the Schott catalogue). For this reason it is assured that blocking is effective down to 300 nm.

To make it short, unfortunately we currently don't offer either in 50x50 with 3mm thickness because it will dim image compared to our 2mm substate thickness filters. Answer in detail: We are sorry, we never felt the Neodymium-Filter to be of intense enough value for CCD-imaging (but very nice for planetary lucky imaging!), hence it is being handled as perfect visual/videography filter here and only av. cell-mounted in 1 1/4" and 2" (2" being a size which already does serve well for DSLR-imaging and were we have all adapters available to put this filter in front of any DSLR-camera lens - or to use our UFC- filter changer for mounting it in front of any CCD-camera. The neodymium substrate will become very expensive in 50x50 x3 mm size and we already must go through a lot of glass to cancel out substrates with striae and other pouring defects. If you find someone offering this substrate in that size and thickness, you should very carefully check it for optical defects as most people do not do this careful glass selection, nor do they polish each filter substrate on an auto-deck-polisher, nor do they apply a truly high efficient BBAR-coating on both sides. Actually most are just usurping the name of the substrate while supplying very mediocre optical quality. If you have evidence of people using our smaller neodymium-filters successfully as "L-filter" substitute in a regular CCD-camera filter wheel, then please let us see the links. If it is reasonable we may enter into such a project - but the resulting price may be double of a cell-mounted 2" filter. Also keep in mind that the 1 mm added thickness will definitely cause some loss in transmission! Regarding the IR-pass-filter in 2 mm thickness: These are perfect for lucky imaging/videography. Hence 95% of these filters are being sold in the 1 1/4" cell-mounted version in 2 mm thickness. Again - offering this in 3 mm thickness will reduce transmission and not offer enough benefit for regular CCD-imaging (just our 2 ct´s).

Our largest cell mounted filters measure 2" (50.8mm) in mechanical diameter (having a metric thread of M48). The optical clear aperture is 46 mm. In order to ease the adaptation of our 2" filters onto most camera lenses, we do produce a 2" filter-holder, to convert from the ASTRO-2" Standard (M48) into a more common photo-standard of SP54 mm ("SP"means this is not a metric thread). For adapting any cell mounted Baader 2 inch Filter onto a camera lens with 52mm front filter thread you will need: #2408166 Baader DSLR 2" Filter-Holder M48 / SP54: https://www.baader-planetarium.com/en/baader-dslr-2%22-filter-holder-m48sp54.html #2958052 Baader Lens-Adapter-Ring SP54 / M52: https://www.baader-planetarium.com/en/baader-hyperion-dt-ring-sp54m52-for-dtadapter-iiandiii-and-hyperion-eyepieces.html Based on the SP54 thread, we offer many more adapters for various camera threads, our so-called Hyperion DT-rings. https://www.baader-planetarium.com/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=sp54