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Old 26-10-2013, 09:58 AM
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Nice shot Marc.

The dust lanes should be less obvious when compared to visible images.
NIR wavelengths are much longer than the particulate size of the obscuring matter and scattering is less. The dust lanes should therefore be less opaque in NIR.

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