Monochrome camera for Skymax 180

[Chrb1985]

Hi! I am leaning against buying this kit it's a camera with electric filter wheels and lrgb filters from zwo https://www.highpointscientific.com/telescope-accessories/astro-photography/ccd-cameras/zwo-asi174mm-monochrome-astronomy-camera-w-1-25-mini-electronic-filter-wheel-new-1-25-lrgb-filter-set-asi174mm-kit2

My concern is the filers. They don't look good in the picture. If someone can shed light on this please do so. I also am planing to use a Barlow on my scope so it will be f30 . That camera has nice big pixels so its almost perfect for my scope with 2x Barlow. But I wonder, how will the camera perform without Barlow?

All help I appreciated!

[Freddie]

What is it that makes you say the filters don’t look good in the picture? I would have thought that determining optical quality from a picture of some filters in a case must be quite tricky!

[Chrb1985]

56 minutes ago, Freddie said:

What is it that makes you say the filters don’t look good in the picture? I would have thought that determining optical quality from a picture of some filters in a case must be quite tricky!

I guess your right.. but they look as it's not even lrgb.. it looks more black pink yellow and green..

[CraigT82]

42 minutes ago, Chrb1985 said:

I guess your right.. but they look as it's not even lrgb.. it looks more black pink yellow and green..

This is normal. The colour of the filter you see as you look at it is the product of the colours it is blocking (reflecting), but without white light.

E.g blue filter looks yellow - as per image below

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by CraigT82