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Old 30-04-2006, 06:11 PM
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Thanks for you comments on the image. Glad you liked it.

The Baader UV/IR Cut filter did make two noticeable differences.

The first thing I noticed after I modified my camera was how much red were in the resulting images. As the modded camera could now see InfraRed, I suspected that the excess red was in-part from the sky background acting as a IR heat source. So the filter certainly cuts out IR and the sky background doesn't turn out quite as red is it did previously.

The second thing I noticed after modding the camera was that stars seemed larger - bloated from IR, I guess. So the new filter has also reduced the amount of star bloating.

You can find info about the filter here
http://www.baader-planetarium.de/dow...uvir-Cut_e.pdf

best regards
Paul Mayo
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