Optolong L-Ultimate Dual-3nm Filter

The new Optolong L-Ultimate Dual 3nm filter. This is a 2″ 3nm dual band mounted filter designed to drastically reduce the effect of light pollution. This filter isolates the emissions of nebulae into H-Alpha (red), and OIII (green/blue).

It blocks light pollution, maximizes the signal from nebulae, and darkens the sky background. It can also block artificial light from mercury vapor lamps, high and low pressure sodium vapor lights, and unwanted natural light caused by the emission of neutral oxygen in our atmosphere. It maximized the transmission of the main emission lines of the nebula in OIII (496nm and 500nm) and H-Alpha (656nm).

The L-Ultimate filter can be used with DSLR, color/monochrome CMOS, and CCD cameras, however, it is not compatible with most fast ratio systems.

The advantage of L-Ultimate is that it only passes through the emission lines OIII(500.7nm) and Ha(656.3nm), in which case all other light pollution emission lines are eliminated so that only the emission and reflection signals of the nebula are captured during imaging. Therefore, the sky background of the image is darker, and the contrast between the nebulae and the signal-to-noise ratio are improved to the greatest extent. In heavy light pollution areas, the product can also selectively filter light pollution and clutter signals through the emission lines of nebulae, and finally avoid the impact of light pollution on astrophotography.

It is different from the series of dual-narrowband L-eNhance and L-eXtreme in that Optolong L-Ultimate is a dual-3nm bandwidth filter that only passes through Ha and OIII emission lines. You will get a darker sky background, more contrast of the image and the suppression on stars. L-Ultimate has also been optimized in terms of halo performance, so that there is no obvious halo when shooting on a bright star object.

• Isolates emissions of nebulae into H-Alpha and OIII
• Compatible with DSLR, color/monochrome CMOS, and CCD cameras
• Muli-layers of anti-reflection coating
• High density sponge carton lining

• Optolong L-Ultimate Dual-3nm Filter- 2″ mounted