Lacerta Wedge plus Lunt diagonal

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Lacerta Wedge plus Lunt diagonal

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Hi all,
Because I for sure don't want to start my own Will it Burn topic, a question before I try it out.
One of the problems with my CaK images are the reflections. So tonight I was trying some different things. If you remove the nosepiece of the Lunt you can screw it directly to a Lacerta Herschel wedge. On the front of the Lunt diagonal it is possible to place a Baader K line filter.
So it would be like this:
1) Lacerta wedge, ND 3.0 removed
2) Baader K-Line
3) B600 Lunt CaK blocking filter.
3) PGR with the IMX 174.

How about it? Would it be safe to use? If I read Christian's post in the "393.4" thread I think it is. But better safe than sorry, so what do you think?
Thanks in advance, Bart.

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Safe to use yes, lacking in a bit of light too. Why remove the front of the Lunt diagonal and replace with the wedge though? What are you trying to achieve?


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Thanks Mark. I am curious if it leads to less reflections.


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Post some pics with the reflections in, this will give an idea as to the source of them.


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Hi Marc, deleted all those avi's. But there will be more. (-;
This weekend tried the Wedge plus prism. With a gain of 37%, so really high, the exposure time was 10 ms. Too much indeed....


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