What color filter will help to see saturn better ?
2007-04-11 10:02:39 · 5 answers · asked by planck12 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I've had good luck with a blue.
2007-04-11 10:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first source mentions yellow or light green filters for general viewing, but I don't think you need any. It also mentions using red and blue filters for seeing the sometimes visible ring left-right color difference.
You can see Saturn quite well in a telescope as small as 3 inches, or maybe even smaller. I took the picture in the second source with a 6 inch telescope and no filter.
2007-04-11 10:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light green Wratten 58, or a blue Wratten 80a filter will enhance the contrast of subtle surface markings, I think that the Wratten 12 (yellow), or the Wratten 15 (orange) will better serve your purpose, and also enhance the rather bland polar regions.
2007-04-15 05:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only comparable ingredient i will think of of is a few variety of viewfinder with a lens, a digicam and a small show screen that reflects black & white. it could might desire to be like evening innovative and prescient goggles - it could't be carried out in a passive skinny-glass way. even if, in case you made some spectacles with pink glass in them, the wearer could quickly replace into used to the redness and it could start to look like a monochrome scene. You get the comparable variety of result below orange sodium lights outdoors at evening - that's annoying to decide colorings.
2016-10-21 21:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by ramayo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue, orange, or green - depends on what you are looking for.
Also, it depends on the apeture of your 'scope - you'll need an 8" or better to really see anything.
2007-04-11 10:09:15 · answer #5 · answered by edward_otto@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋