If you don't mind me asking, what does Lumicon sell their filter for? Thanks, Jim Stitley Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote: FYI, Friday night (or more likely early Saturday) we had a filter showdown in my 16-inch on the Veil nebula; my 2-inch Lumicon O-III vs. Jim Gibson's new 2-inch TeleVue O-III (which by the way costs nearly $30 more). The difference was HUGE. Lumicon beat the pants off the TeleVue. In fact, the TeleVue was so bad you could hardly see a difference between the filter and no filter in terms of contrast with the nebula. Don't know if Jim just got really unlucky and happened upon a defective filter, but if this was any indication of quality, I'd highly recommend you stick with Lumicon (Jim's going to try for a refund in the meantime!). For those of you who haven't looked at the Veil through an O-III filter, it's rather dramatic -- one of my very favorite sights in the summer sky. You can spend a lot of time tracing the extensive loop in Cygnus... Rich __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!