Hello all.
With galaxy season coming to a close, I've started a narrowband project for my monochrome camera. With only preliminary data, I noticed a severe problem with my ZWO OIII 7 mm filter. It seems to produce terrible halos around bright stars (I’ve included the images below) and this is apparently a very common problem with this filter. I've upgraded to the Antlia OIII 3 nm filter and I'm waiting for it to arrive.
I wanted to ask experienced people in the community, do you think it's worth it to upgrade my other Ha and SII 7 nm narrowband filters while I'm at it? Those filters don't seem to produce artifacts but I'm mainly asking with regards to the benefit of going to a smaller bandpass.
Thanks very much for your input!
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first image description: HOO image of zeta oph. Very noticable halo around the bright central star.
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second image description: same as first image but only Ha data. No noticeable artifacts.