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Appendix A – EYEPIECE FILTER INFO
In the following descriptions you will learn what you can expect from Celestron’s eye-
piece filters in different viewing situations.
YELLOW
#12 Deep Yellow 74% T • #15 Deep Yellow 67% T ››› Moon – Enhance lunar features.
Jupiter – Penetrate and darken atmospheric currents containing low-hue blue tones. Enhance
orange and red features of the belts and zones. Useful for studies of the polar regions.
Mars – Reduce
light from the blue and green areas which darken the maria, oases and canal markings, while lightening the orange-hued
desert regions. Also sharpen the boundaries of yellow dust clouds.
Neptune – Improve detail in larger telescopes (11" and
larger apertures).
Saturn – Penetrate and darken atmospheric currents containing low-hue blue tones. Enhance orange and
red features of the belts and zones.
Uranus – Improve detail in larger telescopes (11" and larger apertures). Venus – Reveal
low-contrast surface features.
Comets – Enhance definition in comet tails.
#8 Yellow 83% T ››› Same characteristics as the #12 and #15 Deep Yellow filters, with the exception of the following:
Mars – Improves the Martian maria by reducing scattered light from blue areas, while allowing passage of more green light for
studying yellow dust clouds.
Comets – Brings out highlights in yellowish dust tails and enhances appearance of comet heads.
ORANGE
#21 Orange 46% T ››› Moon – Greatly enhances lunar features. Jupiter – Improves appearance and detail revealed in
structure of Jovian belts. Enhances viewing of festoons and polar regions.
Mars – Reduces light from the blue and green
areas which darken the maria, oases and canal markings, while lightening the orange-hued desert regions. Also sharpens
the boundaries of yellow dust clouds.
Mercury – Reduces the brightness of blue sky during daylight observing, to reveal
surface features.
Saturn – Improves structure of the Saturnian bands and highlights blue polar regions. Venus – Use during
daylight observing to reduce brightness of blue sky.
Comets – Enhances definition of comet dust tails and heads in larger
telescopes (11" and greater aperture).
Solar – When using some Mylar Solar Filters, adding this orange filter will give a truer
color rendition.
RED
#25 Red 14% T ››› Moon – Improves lunar features. Jupiter – Useful for studying bluer clouds. Mars – Ideal for observa-
tion of the polar ice caps and features on the Martian surface. Sharpens the boundaries of yellow dust clouds.
Mercury –
Improves observation at twilight, when the planet is near the horizon. During daylight, it reduces the brightness of the blue
sky to enhance surface features.
Saturn – Useful for studying bluer clouds. Venus – Use during daylight observing to reduce
brightness of blue sky. Occasionally deformations of the terminator are visible.
#23A Light Red 25% T ››› Same characteristics as the #25 filter, with the exception of the following: Mars – Reduces light
from blue and green areas which darkens the maria, oases and canal markings, while lightening the orange-hued desert
regions. Sharpens the boundaries of yellow dust clouds.
Comets – Improves definition of comet dust tails.
BLUE
#80A Light Blue 30% T • #82A Pale Blue 73% T • #38A Blue 17% T ››› Moon – Enhance lunar detail.
Jupiter – Enhance the boundaries between the reddish belts and adjacent bright zones. Useful for viewing the Great Red
Spot.
Mars – Very useful during the violet clearing. Helpful in studying surface features and polar caps. Mercury – Improve
observation of dusky surface markings at twilight, when the planet is near the horizon.
Saturn – Enhance low-contrast
features between the belts and zones.
Venus – Useful for increased contrast of dark shadings in upper Venusian clouds.
Comets – Bring out the best definition in comet gas tails.
GREEN
#56 Light Green 53% T ››› Moon – Enhances lunar features. Jupiter – Increases visibility of the Great Red Spot. Useful for
observing the low-contrast hues of blue and red that exist in the Jovian atmosphere.
Mars – Excellent for increased contrast
of Martian polar caps, low clouds and yellowish dust storms.
Venus – Useful for Venusian cloud pattern studies. Reduces
brightness of blue sky during daylight observing.
#58 Green 24% T ››› Same characteristics as the #56 Green filter, with the exception of the following: Saturn – Enhances
white features in the Saturnian atmosphere.
Comets – Useful for observing brighter comets.
VIOLET
#47 Violet 3% T ››› Mars – Useful for detecting high clouds and haze over the Martian polar caps. Very useful during the
violet clearing.
Mercury – Helpful in detecting faint features. Saturn – Good for ring structure studies. Venus – Increases
contrast of dark shading in upper Venusian clouds.
Comets – Useful for observing brighter comets.
96ND (NEUTRAL DENSITY)
#96ND 50% T – Density 0.3 • #96ND 25% T – Density 0.6 • #96ND 13% T – Density 0.9 ››› Moon – Excellent for
reducing irradiation, glare and subject brightness. Colors are unaltered, as light is transmitted uniformly over the entire spec-
trum. Each model performs somewhat differently, depending on the brightness of the moon.
Planets – Stacking in combina-
tion with color filters lowers transmission, but retains true color balance for specific applications. Reduces glare on brighter
planets and minimizes irradiation.
Binary (Double) Stars – Helpful in splitting binary stars, because it reduces glare and dif-
fraction effects around the brighter star of the binary pair.
POLARIZING ››› Reduces reflected polarized light in the earth’s atmosphere.
MOON & PLANETS ››› Invaluable in reducing irradiation and glare. Binary Stars – Helpful in splitting binary stars,
because it reduces glare and diffraction effects around the brighter star of the binary pair.
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