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

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