Celestron Solar Filter for the CPC 1100 and CGE 1100 Telescope(s)
Celestron Solar Filters are made with Baader Astro Solar Safety Film, and yield bright, sharp images high in contrast.
Astro Solar Safety Film is clear and homogeneous, attaining the optical performance of high quality plane-parallel glass filters, and is diffraction-limited! The double-sided metal coatings have uniform density and good color balance across the entire field to ensure edge-to-edge sharp imagery.
When using the solar filter, the Sun appears in its real color neutral white - not blue or orange - and the sky adjacent to the solar limb is jet black. You'll see detail in sunspots, bright faculae near the limb and the mottled areas known as granules. The Sun offers constant changes and will keep observing interesting and fun, even with small-apertures scopes.
The film is completely safe and durable, not breaking like glass if dropped. It transmits 1/100,000th of visible light (0.001%) while reflecting 99.999% of unwanted light.
Adding a #21 orange color filter on your eyepiece gives truer solar color renditions.
Note! Care must always be observed when viewing the sun directly
- Made with Baader Astro Solar Safety Film 1
- Yields sharper and more contrasty images
- Absorbs all ultraviolet rays while the coating reflects infrared light
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- Does the job
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- Unstable
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Comments about Celestron Solar Filter for the CPC 1100 and CGE 1100 Telescope(s):
I bought this for my 11" NexStar GPS and am happy to say that it DOES fit on the OTA. The only thing lacking on the GPS is the locking pins that would prevent the wind from blowing it off. In strong wind, the film rattles and the entire cover can be blown away, exposing the guts of your scope (and eye if you're unfortunate enough to be looking through it) to damaging solar levels.
The Baader film is good for viewing sunspots, but granularity isn't detectable without additional filters. I recently had the opportunity to view through a glass filter and noted that the contrast with the glass filter was considerably better. Baader sells a "Solar Continuum" filter they claim will improve contrast, so it seems that you have the choice of film + eyepiece filter vs. a good glass filter.
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