Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow Filter with IR Cut - 2" # FMS-2 2458334A

2.0 "I Can See Clearer Now The City Lights Are Gone...."

but look, if you live in Manhattan (or New Orleans,like I do) and you think that by buying into this piece of glass that suddenly the entire Milky Way somehow materialize inside of your scope or that stunning vistas of the Horsehead Nebula will come galloping into view all as if you were standing atop Mt. Palomar, than you will be sorely disappointed. I've not had a chance to use this on any of my telescopes outside of the unfortunate umbrella dome of a glowing metropolis so I cannot speak to the alleged enhancement of Deep Sky objects but as for the sublimation of artificial lighting, I give it a solid "MEH". It does a very good job of imbuing contrast on our planetary neighbors but any adequate set of cheap colored filters serve just as well.

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5.0 Amazing on Jupiter's GRS

I bought this filter a year ago, and just now used it. That was a mistake. Last night at 200x, this filter in combination with an 82A, brought the GRS in Jupiter out very nicely. Now I can't wait to use it on Cassini's Division. This was definitely worth the money on planets.

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4.0 My first Filter

Excellent

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5.0 Baader Planetarium 2" Moon and Skyglow FIlter

I had trouble with the threads on this filter from another supplier. I have seen other complaints about this being a problem. However, the one I received from Agena Astro had no problem and fits all my 2 inch eyepieces and Barlow.

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5.0 Great Planetary filter!

bought this in preparation for the Mars flyby in July but used it on Jupiter the other night. dramatically increased detail in the bands and contrast across the entire planet. adds only a slight amount of blue tint but it's barely noticeable. can't wait to try this on some nebula! great filter!

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5.0 Does what it says

Haven't had a chance to use it on planets yet. But it does very slightly improve the detail on large galaxies in my 14" Newtonian, at my class 3 site with exit pupils greater than 3mm. It also increases the moons contrast and brings out more detail in the Orion Nebula at all magnifications... It's kind of cool to look through the filter in daylight, things like wood grain and flowers leap out in contrast. Can't wait to try it on Mars this summer!

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5.0 Best LPR for Galaxies, Clusters and Planets.

This Is one of the best Wideband LPRs, works on galaxies, clusters, and also improves planetary. Great for seeing the GRS on Jupiter, works well on Mars.

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5.0 Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow Filter with IR Cut - 1.25" #

These are great filters and I will be placing them in tests to see how effective they are in sky glow and fringing reduction.

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5.0 Good Filter

This filter helps cut light pollution and improves contrast. I have enjoyed it on the moon and planets, and in trying to reduce light pollution from a major urban center. (I have better luck picking out stars from a bright hazy background.) It reduces but does not eliminate fringing, and seems to change it from violet to yellow. Nothing can bring back the dark night sky except common sense and better urban planning, and good luck with both of those. In the meantime, I recommend a filter like this one.

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4.0 It helps star gazing in bright cities

Well made, sensible and protective package, easily installed to my eyepieces.

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4.0 Improves contrast, but not on suburbs or darker places...

I tested it in my main observing site, a gray light pollution area. It improves contrast, but it will not make your photos really better. In the suburbs the improvement is better!

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5.0 My Review

I live in Michigan. Keepin that in mind, I was able to use it only twice since receiving it a couple of months ago. The two times I did use it. I have no complaints.

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5.0 Excellent on Mars & Jupiter, and achro solar/lunar

Reliable Threads

I have found this greatly increases contrast for viewing Maria on Mars, and sharpens Jupiter nicely, though I might prefer light blue. Some minor enhancement on nebulae is nice for small scopes. GREAT in achros on Sun and Moon when combined with a yellow CA cutting filter (I use either No. 8 or No. 15). Best white solar I have achieved by far is No. 15 + MSG in my C102.

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5.0 Worth Every Penny

Lightweight,Accurate,Easy to Use,Strong Construction,Enhances Viewing,Quality Lenses

None

A must have for anyone who wants to see planets, moon and Nebulas. Once you see through it you may never take it off.

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5.0 Excellent filter, won't be without one

Quality Lenses,Accurate,Very Good Filter Cell,Optically Great

None

This filter works very well for me with my 10" dob on the planets. It provides enhanced contrast on many features. Agena's service is excellent as usual, they are a preferred vendor of mine.

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4.0 Nicely blocks sodium lights

Easy to Use,Accurate,Strong Construction,Lightweight

48mm Only

Very good blocking of sodium lights for astrophotography.
Works well with telescopes with 2" focuser but only can be used with lenses with max 52mm filter size and a step ring.

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5.0 Better contrast......

Strong Construction,Easy to Use,Quality Lenses,Compact,Accurate,Lightweight

I'm using the filter for imaging when the moon is up, although I'm not imaging near the moon it does help a great deal. It gives me darker background and more contrast.

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4.0 Useful tool

Easy to Use,Quality Lenses

A useful tool to get rid of light pollution, which it does a good job at. The filter also shows a little more detail in Nebulas. Overall a good addition to the tool box.

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4.0 No free lunch in a white zone

Easy to Use,Compact

I do primarily imaging, rather than visual astronomy and got this to help tame some of the light pollution in my neck of the woods (which is a white zone). It helps, but as far as imaging goes it does leave objects with a bit of a reddish hue that I've not figured out how to adjust in post, as you lose a segment of the blue and green (because those are bands not passed by the filter, because they are "skyglow" (Oxygen) and other emission lines common to artificial lighting).

For emission/planetary nebulae, this works fine.

I am moving into monochrome CCD imaging, and am thinking about using this filter for luminance.

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5.0 Excellent for heavy light pollution

Quality Lenses,Lightweight,Accurate,Easy to Use

Baader comes through again, as they always do.

I image from a red zone, bordering on white, just outside of Nashville, TN. With Nashville on the NW horizon, and another smaller but still bright town to the SE, I'm surrounded by light blooms and yellow-red skies.

This filter does a superb job of limiting the glow from nearby cities, as well as closer localized LP such as street lamps and porch lights.

Processing is considerably easier, shutter can remain open longer to catch more detail, and fainter nebulosity and stars can be teased out of the data.

An excellent product at any price.

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3.0 Still undecided about its usefulness.

Easy to Use,Lightweight,Quality Lenses,Strong Construction

Not really sure how much this improves the photons coming through the eyepiece. It does seem to do a little, but knowing you're using it sometimes give you an idea that its working, but for me, I wonder if the money spent is worth the minimal increase in viewing performance. I would recommend it, but try to use one before buying one.

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5.0 Essential Renowned Baader Quality Filter

Strong Construction,Quality Lenses,Easy to Use,Accurate

Using the Baader Moon & Skyglow filter by itself showed more detail and more contrast as expected and I am very satisfied with its performance. However, when combined with the Baader UV/IR filter its performance is nothing short of outstanding with breathtaking clarity and contrast.

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5.0 Very good product

Accurate

Using it on visual for planets with a mak 150/1800

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4.0 A great filter for planetary imaging

Great picture quality,Great Value,Quality Lenses

Not great at full moon

I've taken good afocal pictures of jupiter and the 4 galilean moons with this filter and Meade Series 5000 6.7mm UWA eyepiece in my 12" F/4.9 Dob scope, when everyone said it'll never work!
Really brings out the colors of the cloud bands! can't wait to see mars with it!

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5.0 Must have filter

Strong Construction,Accurate,Quality Lenses,Compact

I live in a suburban neighborhood with moderate to severe light pollution. I'm generally restricted to lunar, planetary, or bright clusters for observing. Nebulae, galaxies, and faint comets are generally drowned out by streetlights and my neighbor's porch lights.

Using this filter I can easily pick out detail and structure in the Andromeda Galaxy and the Orion Nebula. Fainter nebulae suddenly stand out from the background.

The only downside I can come up with is that it does tend to give objects a slightly greenish tint. Given the choice of a greenish tint or not being able to see these objects at all, it's hardly a drawback at all.

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5.0 It really works

Quality Lenses

None

This little filter really works. It gives more contrast to planets and blocks some of the sky glow. I highly recommend this filter.

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5.0 Great Planetary Filter!

Quality Lenses

The Baader M&S filter is excellent for cutting glare and bringing out surface features on Mars, without drastically changing the color of the planet. I do not use color filters, but I purchased this based on forum recommendations. I have not liked filters that change the overall color of a planet, so I strictly used only ND filters, until now. I suspect it will work equally as well on Jupiter.

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4.0 Noticable improvement

Strong Construction,Quality Lenses

I was dubious about this filter's hype, but it does what it says it will. With the filter, on a night with a 3rd quarter moon, the back ground was noticably darker with the filter and the 'faint fuzzies' were just a bit easier to make out. Over all, I'd rate the improvement to be about 10-20%. It doesn't work miracles, but it definitely works.

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4.0 Great for Mars

Compact,Accurate,Strong Construction,Quality Lenses

I'm not sure why they call this a "Moon and Skyglow" filter because it doesn't seem to help me very much with either of those things, but it's a nice contrast booster for planetary observation. I've been especially pleased with it for Mars observation. The with and without pictures of Mars that they publish are realistic.

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3.0 Not quite as good as expeceted

Quality Lenses

I bought this after reading the reviews that this filter enhanced views of Jupiter. To be truth full I did not notice much of a difference in the view with or with out the filter. I did try it on the Orion nebula and noticed a slight improvement even thought this not a nebular filter.

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3.0 Good quality but limited application

Strong Construction,Quality Lenses

Not for light pollution

As with other Baader Planetarium products, this filter is of very high quality. I purchased it to use as a light pollution filter on a small aperture refractor, but it does very little to cut out light pollution. It does however "boost" the apparent contrast in views of the moon and planets, with very little colour change...kind of like those blue-blocker sunglasses! It boosts contrast in terrestrial use too.

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4.0 Baader Neo Skyglow Filter

Compact,Quality Construction

The Baader Neo Moon & Skyglow Filter does what it is designed for in that it increases the contrast between the background sky and most deep sky objects such as nebulae when observing from light polluted suburban locations.
The filter does not perform miracles but it offers, what seems to me, an 10% increase in the visibility of faint objects from these locations, therefore making observing with a telescope just that little more enjoyable.

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5.0 Outstanding for planet viewing!

Enhanced contrast on planets. Far and away better than regular color filters.

Might disappoint those buying it specifically for suppressing skyglow, or moonlight.

The name of this filter "Moon & Skyglow" may cause folks to pass over this filter's biggest strength, which is a planet filter. In my refractor and reflector, surface features on Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were more vivid and contrasty, without any significant color shift.

In fact what color shift that does occur is an improvement as the colors seem brighter and "purer" (not actually so, but you have to use it to appreciate it). Those who have used traditional color filters when viewing the planets and were understandably nonplussed will be surprised at the results of this one. The opacity is mild -- comparable to an 80A filter, yet whites seem whiter than without the filter.

If you only had to own ONE planet filter, this should be the one.

As for the filter's title uses: On the Moon, there is a pleasing slight color shift (whiter disk). Space above the Moon appears darker than without the filter.

As a skyglow filter, it is very mild. It won't significantly dim the views, and the sky IS noticeably darker for viewing DSOs (I'm in a white zone for light pollution). This can be useful for some short exposure astrophotography, but is still not as aggressive as normal broadband filter.

Minuses? Well, it probably won't work for Venus.

4.0 Great for my light polluted area

Compact,Strong Construction,Accurate

I live in Bangkok, a capital city of Thailand, where my observatory is surrounded by three Condominiums. Before using this filter, I was able to take at most two minutes exposure (Canon DSLR) before the image washed out. Neodymium filter allows me to take three to five minutes long before having sky fog in my image.

When seeing the color histogram in Photoshop, I notice that the filter is great at red and blue wavelength whilst the green channel is cut off by almost half. However, the color balance can be dealt with post processing easily.

Overall, I'm very happy with the product. It allows me to collect more details in deep sky objects, by longer exposure, with a very reasonable price.

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4.0 Moon & Skyglow Filter 1.25"

Improves contrast

This is a great filter for bright objects like the Moon and Venus. It dims the brightness and improves the contrast, yet it doesn't degrade the image like some cheap Moon filters do. It is a high quality piece and the price is comparable to other Moon filters. The dimming effect is probably not sufficient for a scope larger than about 8" for the Moon and Venus, but it's great for smaller scopes.

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4.0 Moon & Skyglow Filter 1.25"

Dims while improving contrast

Extent of dimming might not be sufficient for a big scope

This is a great filter for bright objects like the Moon and Venus. It dims the brightness and improves the contrast, yet it doesn't degrade the image like some cheap Moon filters do. It is a high quality piece and the price is comparable to other Moon filters. The dimming effect is probably not sufficient for a scope larger than about 8" for the Moon and Venus, but it's great for smaller scopes.