Optolong Night Sky 2" Mounted H-Alpha Filter

Optolong Night Sky H-Alpha Filter - 2”

The Optolong Night Sky H-Alpha filter, or IR-Pass 650nm filter, can be used for imaging of the Moon and planets as well as deep-sky h-alpha regions. This IR-Pass H-Alpha filter enhances contrast and surface detail and helps reduce the effects of seeing when used in conjunction with RGB filters for planetary imaging. It also makes a great introductory H-alpha filter.

The Night Sky H-Alpha Filter has a 50% transition from blocking to passing at about 640nm, and 95% transmission from 650nm to 1100nm.

The Optolong 2” Night Sky H-Alpha Filter is made with Schott glass that has been multi-coated with an ion-assisted deposition technology to ensure scratch resistance and stability on the central wavelength, or CWL. The filter cell is made of lightweight, strong metal and is CNC machined, sand-blasted, black anodized, and then laser engraved. The result is a super thin filter cell that will produce a clear aperture of 45mm.

Quality Filter Materials:

• Schott B260 substrate material from Germany, 2.0mm thick

• CNC machined and black anodized aero-metal filter cell that is ultra-thin to provide largest clear aperture; Laser-engraved to prevent fading

• Multiple layers of anti-reflection non-cementing coatings applied via electron-beam gun evaporation with Ion-assisted deposition

Optolong Filter Manufacturing Processes and Parameters

• Filter substrate is fine-optically polished to 1/4 wave and <30 parallelism over both surfaces

• Surface quality, according to MIL-O-13830, is 60/40

• 95% transmission at passband

• High value transmission of pass-band and optical density of off-band is assured through Optolong’s planetary rotation system, a homogenous and precise coating procedure

• Thin metal cells have a clear aperture of 45mm for 2” filters

• Each filter comes with a plastic case with high pressure EVA case lining

About Optolong

Optolong is the Astronomy Filters division of Yulong Optics, an optical filter design and processing company out of Kunming, China that has provided filters for over 700 optical companies since 1999. All Optolong filters pass European Union RoHS requirements and have been certified by TUV Rheinland and Bureau Veritas.