Re: [APML] Cygnus mosaic (was Fish on the Platter)

[KGKIRKLEY@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/01 4:29:55 PM, cherrio@shocking.com writes:

>Loke
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>Have you ever heard of anyone doing simultaneous tricolor images? Is it
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>possible? Someway?
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>Just a thought?!
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>With the great minds we have available someone should be able to come up
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>with a way to do multiple pick offs into separate CCD through filters from
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>the same source.
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>Crazy??  Impossible!! Some challenge!!]
>
>Ray Rochelle

Ray:
Sounds like the original Technicolor cameras of the 1940's and 50's.
These were large studio cameras that used one imaging lens but separated the 
light into CMY colors onto three separate 8x10 sheets of film. The three 
sheets of film were then used to make dye transfer prints. A lot of magazine 
covers were photographed this way. I don't think they ever attempted to use 
them for astrophotography.
Kent Kirkley

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