RE: [APML]: Starter Equipment

["Richmann, Michael" <richmann@cmt.anl.gov>]

I've tested the performance of the Meade version on a spectrometer
and it was, in a word, dreadful.  Stick to the Lumicon/Orion offerings.

Mike

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> Mike Rogers wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have a Meade Broadband nebula filter.  Is this usable instead of
> the
> > Lumicon Deep Sky filter?
> > 
> 
> If you can, check the transmission wavelength graph of the Meade
> filter.
> If it looks similar to the Lumicon DeepSky, it will work as well. I
> have
> used Orion's SkyGlow and the Lumicon DeepSky (extensively) and I see
> no
> essential difference between the two.
> 
> -- 
> Clear skies,
> Steve Bell
> email: sb635@delphi.com
> Astrophoto page: http://www.mindspring.com/~sb635