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Light pollution filter with binoculars.

Started by Dennis Sakva, 04/17/2004 04:26PM
Posted 04/17/2004 04:26PM Opening Post
Hi everybody,
I live in a quite light polluted place. I own Oberwerk 15x70 binoculars and was thinking about buying a broadband filter to put it in front of one eyepiece. Will it work in this position? Is it worth using an LPR filter with binoculars?

Dennis.
Posted 04/17/2004 06:23PM #1
Dennis,
I have used them and found their utility to increase proportionally to the degree of light pollution present. Although I know they say you only need one filter as the brain will average out the two images I have found that in extreme situations that using two filters seemed to give me a little better contrast. Perhaps it is just my imagination but that was what I found.
Respectfully,
Dan
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