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This new generation of Baader Filters features:
CMOS-optimierte Baader Filter- Reflex-Blocker™ coatings, for largest ever freedom from halos, even under most adverse conditions concerning aux-optics
- Identical filter thickness to existing standards, with utmost care for parfocality
- Blackened edges all around, with filter-lead-side-indicator in the form of a telescope-sided black outer rim, to additionally eliminate any reflection due to light falling onto the edge of a filter
- Each filter coated individually, with sealed coating edge (NOT cut out of a larger plate with coatings left exposed, read more)
- Life-Coat™: evermore hard coatings to enable a non-aging coating for life – even in a most adverse environment
Further information, test reviews, image results...
... can be found on our detailed Blogposts:
Baader Blogpost:
Amateur Astronomers take a look through the Cloud Cover of Venus with our SLOAN FiltersThis entry was posted on June 9, 2022 Last modified on February 27, 2024.
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First Light with Baader SDSS filters by S. ZiegenbalgThis entry was posted on February 23, 2022 Last modified on October 6, 2023.
Baader Blogpost:
Now available: New Baader UBVRI and SLOAN/SDSS (ugriz') Photometric FiltersThis entry was posted on October 12, 2021 Last modified on February 28, 2024.
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New CMOS-optimized Baader FiltersThis entry was posted on May 8, 2021 Last modified on February 28, 2024.
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