Okay, y'all...what do I spend my hard earned mazooma on...

Baader Solar Filter Material

Thousand Oaks Black Polymer

I have a 130mm aperture scope, stopped down to maybe 1 1/2" (the old off-axis hole in the stop plate).

Your opinions puhleeze?

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I can't comment on the Thousand Oaks polymer since I've never looked through it. I'm quite happy with the Baader material I bought. The Thousand Oaks Type II glass filters are quite nice too, especially if you like the yellow-orange color they transmit. I'm not sure what color their polymer gives the solar disk. The Baader material gives a somewhat "white" image, so you can use a typical wratten filter on your EP to give the disk color (if you prefer a colored disk).

I'd like to know if anyone has compared the two brands myself, as I have a need to purchase more material as well.

Is this correct? Don't they mean aperture, rather than magnification? I would have thought that even the world's largest telescope could be used on low magnification.

Also, isn't high magnification easier on the eyes, as the light collected by the telescope is spread out over a larger area of the retina?

On topic: I use Baader AstroSolar filters on my 10x50 binoculars. I made the filters myself from an A4 sheet of the material and some stiff cardboard. They work really well. Baader claims that the white image is the Sun's natural colour.

Baader versus Solar-Skreen

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Just a bump...although I'm half an inch short of buying 144sqin of Thousand Oaks on eBay...

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"If a tree is cut down in the rainforest, and is used to make paper to print a book, and the book is really bad, and there's nobody that will read it, do you still hear a sucking sound?"
Charlie in Dayton, A.AsC.