Re: [APML] Astronomy Magazine M8

[Matthew Hunt <mph+ap@wopr.caltech.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:54:15PM -0800, steve banbury wrote:

> On the image being discussed, what does the title "taken in the BVR passbands"
> mean?

B, V, and R are three of the traditional astronomical filters.  Like most
filters you'd find at NOAO, they are not specifically designed to make
pretty pictures, approximate the response of the human eye, etc.

Effective wavelength, FWHM, and transmission curves for the Keck LRIS
approximation to the BVR filters are available from:

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/mirror/keck/realpublic/inst/lris/filter_list.html

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